Valor nutritivo da leguminosa Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth como alternativa na suplementação alimentar de ruminantes na Amazônia Oriental

Abstract

This work was realized in the Animal Research Unit "Senator Alvaro Adolpho" in the Embrapa Eastern Amazon, in Belem, Para State, to evaluate the effect of four levels of substitution (25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) of the Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth leguminous, in the voluntary consumption and apparent digestibility of the dry substance (MS), crude protein (PB), crude energy (EB), detergent neutral fiber (FDN) and acid detergent fiber (FDA). The experiment was of 14 days of adaptation and seven days of experimental period, using sixteen sheep’s, of ten months and 28 (± 2,44) average of kg, in a completely randomized experimental design, with four treatments and four repetitions. The data had been analyzed by software SAS. The substitution of the quicuio-da-Amazônia for the pueraria in the diet influenced the voluntary consumption and the apparent digestibility of all the nutrients, being described for quadratic function. A quadratic increase in the apparent consumptions of the FDN was evidenced and FDA, however, with increase of the level of leguminous in the diet, had been observed significant reductions in the FDN text when the 75% level was supplied. The use of the Pueraria phaseoloides leguminous, provides to greater availability of dry substance in the fodder plant and rise of the nutritional value, mainly, protein in the diet, promoting increase of the animal productivity. Levels of substitution of P. Phaseoloides, around 100%, make possible greater consumption of the dry substance, organic substance, PB and EB, while that, the 75% level allows to greater consumption of the fibroses fractions.