Effect of waste mango silage on the gas production, digestibility, intake, apparent digestibility, and ruminal characteristics in calf diets.

BACKGROUND AND AIM

Mexico is the fifth largest producer of mangoes in the world. For the conservation of agro-industrial waste and crop residues, the ensiling technique has shown good results. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of increasing the level of mango silage (86% waste mango and 14% pangola grass hay) in calf diets on gas production, digestibility, intake, apparent digestibility, and ruminal characteristics.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

The diets contained 0 (T0), 30 (T1), 45 (T2), and 60% (T3) mango silage. The partial (24, 48, and 72 h) and cumulative (72 h) biogas, CH production, and degradation were determined in the evaluation. digestibility and estimators of fermentation kinetics of dry matter (DM) and organic matter (OM) were determined. Intake, apparent nutrient digestibility, and rumen parameters of calves (200 kg) were evaluated in a 4 × 4 Latin square design. Response to increased mango silage was calculated by linear and quadratic orthogonal contrasts.

RESULTS

partial and cumulative biogas production decreased linearly (p < 0.05), and the partial and cumulative CH production did not show linear or quadratic contrast (p > 0.05); DM degradation, o neutral detergent fiber degradation, and o acid detergent fiber degradation showed a linear increase (p < 0.05). u dry matter digestibility (DMDis), organic matter digestibility (OMDis), b, a + b, c, and effective digestibility (ED) of DMDis, a, a + b, c, and ED of OMDis increased linearly (p < 0.05). Dry matter intake, OM intake, and crude protein intake showed a linear increase (p < 0.05); NDF intake and ADF intake presented a quadratic behavior (p < 0.05). Apparent digestibility of DM, OM, CP, and hemicellulose, pH, N-NH, total bacterial count, acetate, propionate, butyrate, volatile fatty acids, acetate: propionate ratio, cellulolytic bacteria, and protozoa did not present a linear or quadratic orthogonal effect (p > 0.05).

CONCLUSION

The , , and variables demonstrated that up to 60% mango silage can be used for the intensive fattening of calves in confinement.