Feeding of Goats on Underutilized Resources

The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the use of underutilized feedresources (orange waste, pea-pods, rice straw and poultry manure)prepared in many different silage mixtures with urea or sodiumhydroxide for feeding ruminants. The quality of the prepared silages wastested during the ensilage peroid (70 days), through determination ofsilage pH, lactic, acetic and butyric acids concentrations. To evaluate thenutritional value of the produced silage a series of digestibility trials wereconducted with goats. Rumen fermentation pattern, including pH, totalVFA and NH3-N concentrations of the goat fed the experimental silageswere also taken into consideration. Additional objective of this work was toestimate the nutritional value of sun-dried orange waste and pea-pods.A Experimental silagesTweleve silage mixtures were prepared as follows: