1Department of Livestock Nutrition and Feed Technology, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, University of Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Sumedang, 45360, Indonesia
2Laboratory of Crop Production, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Sumedang, 45360, Indonesia
*Corresponding Author: Department of Livestock Nutrition and Feed Technology, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, University of Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Sumedang, 45360, Indonesia, Email: nyimas.popi@unpad.ac.id
Online published on 13 June, 2025.
The Canavalia gladiata species is one among the important legumes for food and feed and possesses potential for ruminant feed. Studies were carried out to assess the nutritional composition of the leaves of sword bean and the purpose of the study was to determine the effect of various plant ages on the nutrient content of sword bean leaves as feed forage.
The experiment was laid out in a completely randomized design. The treatments were different ages of sword bean plants, namely 75.120 and 180 days after planting replicated eight times. The data generated as analyzed quantitatively by using the analysis of variance based on the 5% level F test and continued with Duncan's multiple distance test. The observed variables were ash, crude protein, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, tannin, saponin and lignin contents.
The results showed that different harvest ages gave different results on the ash, crude protein, phosphorus, tannin and saponin contents. However, crude fiber, calcium and lignin contents did not show significant variation with age of the leave. The best harvest time was at 180 Days after Planting with the optimum ash (12.77%), crude protein (31.54%), crude fiber (15.52%), calcium (3.24%), phosphorus (0.25%), tannin (0.33%), saponin (5.74%) and lignin (6,16%) contents of sword bean leaves as feed forage.
Anti nutrition, Feed forage, Plant age, Sword bean leaves
