DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2021.v09i03.018

Pages: 385-389

The use of crop residues can bring benefits to the ruminant’s diet and in many cases ensure an increase in food availability, improved production efficiency and an economic and appropriate disposal of these sub products. An experiment was carried out to determine the performance and digestibility of sixteen (16) White Fulani heifers fed banana leaf (BL) ensiled with cassava peel (CP), and varying levels of brewers spent grain (BSG) and poultry waste (PW). The animals were allotted into four (4) dietary treatments with four (4) replicates per treatment in a completely randomized design. Treatments consist of control: 40% BL + 60% CP , Treatment 1: 40% BL + 20% CP + 40% BSG, Treatment 2: 40% BL + 20% CP + 40% PW and Treatment 3: 40% BL + 20% CP + 20% BSG+ 20% PW. The results from the study showed that the dry matter intake (DMI), crude protein (CP)intake, neutral detergent fibre (NDF), acid detergent fibre (ADF) and acid detergent lignin (ADL) of the diets were significantly (P< 0.05) affected. The chemical composition of the silage fed to white Fulani heifers shows that the treatment were significantly affected cross the treatments. T2 had the highest value of dry matter (51.22) and control had the lowest value (27.16), T1 had the value of crude protein (25.55), NDF value (49.70), ADF (30.60) and ADL (14.50) while control had the lowest value (11.19). (29.60), (22.10) and (11.30) respectively. Mean dry matter digestibility of the experimental study shows that all parameters across dietary treatments were significantly affected (p< 0.05). T1 had the highest dry matter intake (526.91) and dry matter digestibility (67.05), while control had the lowest dry matter intake (233.44) and faecal output (96.86). T3 had the highest faecal putput (205.17). The performance indices of White Fulani heifers fed the experimental diets indicates that parameter across diets treatment were significantly affected (p<0.05). T1 had the highest values of feed intake (19.57), weight..........