Intake and digestibility of hay supplemented with Chamaecytisus palmensis (tree lucerne) by sheep

摘要

Tree lucerne or Tagasaste, is a leguminous shrub which grows in a wide variety of climatic conditions. Native rangeland in the drier summer rainfall areas of South Africa, may limit animal production due to suboptimal intake which resolves from high cell wall and/or low nitrogen contents of available forage. The object of this study was to compare the effect of Tagasaste supplementation on intake and digestibility of good, medium and low quality hay.