Pakistan Journal of Nutrition1680-51941994-7984Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/pjn.2009.1262.1265in vitro Gas Production of Panicum maximum cv T 58 in the Derived Savanna Zone of Nigeria]]>SodeindeF.G. AkinladeJ.A. AderinolaO.A. AmaoS.R. AlaladeJ.A. AdesokanA.T. 8200988The in vitro gas production and the proximate composition of field grown Panicum maximum cv T 58 (Guinea grass) harvested from poultry manured soil and harvested after 6 weeks of regrowth was determined. The experiment was a split plot design with three replicates. Poultry droppings increased the volume of the gas produced in both stem and leaf of P. maximum cv T 58. The result reveals that stems produce higher methane gas than the leaf. This indicates that the stem lost high energy compared to the leaves when fed to the ruminants. There were no significant differences (P > 0.05) in metabolizable energy (ME), organic matter digestibility (OMD) and short chain fatty acids (SFA) measured. Panicum maximum from fertilized poultry dropping recorded higher crude protein 8.40% content in the leaf compared with the stem of 5.08 %. Despite these variations, the forage generally contained adequate amounts of the minerals to meet livestock requirements. In production systems, the quality of Panicum maximum a major feed of grazing animals in south Western Nigeria could be enhanced by application of the poultry dropping to the soil.]]>Aregheore, E.M. and S.A. Abdulrazak,2005in vitro gas production.]]>327987Bamikole, M.A. and O.J. Babayemi,2004531323Babayemi, O.J. and M.A. Bamikole,2006Tephrosia candida DC leaf and its mixtures with guinea grass on in vitro fermentation changes as feed for ruminants in Nigeria.]]>51418Babayemi, O.J., M.A. Bamikole and A.B. Omojola,2006Nephrolepis biserrata and Spirodela polyrhiza) by West African dwarf goats.]]>61522Blummel, M. and E.R. Orskov,1993in vitro gas production and nylon bag degradability of roughages in predicting feed intake in cattle.]]>40109119Fievez, V., O.J. Babayemi and D. Demeyer,2005123-124197210Getachew, G., H.P.S. Makkar and K. Becker,1999in vitro gas production in presences and absence of polyethylene glycol for tannin containing browses.]]>1999pp: 5061Little, D.A.,19811981pp: 1011Makkar, H.P.S., M. Blummel and K.J. Becker,1995In vitro effects and interaction between tannins and saponins and fate of tannins in the rumen.]]>69481493Menke, K.H., L. Raab, A. Salewski, H. Steingass, D. Fritz and W. Schneider,1979in vitro.]]>93217222