IMPROVED QUALITY OF SILAGE MADE FROM DWARF ELEPHANT GRASS AND FINE RICE BRAN WITH THE ADDITION OF COMMERCIAL CULL SYRUP

When feed supplies are limited, silage, a byproduct of the feed preservation process, is intended to increase feed availability. The ensilage process may be accelerated by using glucose-rich commercial syrup that has gone bad. The purpose of this study was to assess how adding commercial syrup that had expired would affect the silage properties of a blend of fine rice bran and dwarf elephant grass. Additionally, the concentrations of ammonia, total volatile fatty acids (VFA), and water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC) were measured. This experiment used a completely randomized design with five replications and four treatments. The following is how the treatments were distributed: Odot grass and fine rice bran at a dry matter ratio of 7% made up the first treatment (P1), which acted as the control. Commercial syrup was added to the second treatment (P2), third treatment (P3), and fourth treatment (P4) at a dry matter ratio of 8%, 10%, and 12%, respectively. For thirty days, the ensilage process was carried out at room temperature. pH, water soluble carbohydrates (WSC), ammonia, total volatile fatty acids (VFA), and dry matter loss were among the characteristics that were assessed. The analysis of variance was applied to the data. The Duncan multiple range test at the 5% significance level was then used to compare the various treatments .The results showed that adding expired commercial syrup up to 12% DM significantly increased the generation of lactic acid, which in turn caused the pH to drop toward an acidic level and the ammonia content to decrease. The total VFA did, however, vary somewhat among treatments, including dry matter loss, and there was no statistically significant difference between treatments that received expired commercial syrup as a supplement. In summary, silage made from dwarf elephant grass and fine rice bran can have its ammonia level decreased and its total volatile fatty acid (VFA) content increased by using 10% DM of expired commercial syrup.