Vol. 12, Special Issue 9 (2023)

Author(s):
Suma N, Arun P Nath, Vivek M Patil, Mamatha HS, Manju GU and Jyothi MS

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted to assess the nutritional values of unripen jackfruit silage (UJFS) by in vitro techniques. In vitro dry matter digestibility (per cent), NDF digestibility (per cent), corrected net gas (ml/200mg DM) produced during 24 h incubation period and the ME (MJ/kg DM) content predicted from rumen in vitro gas production technique of UJFS was 91.89, 68.79, 65.51 and 11.81, respectively. From the current experiment it was inferred that unripen jackfruit silage can be utilized as an unconventional feed in the diet of ruminants.