Evaluation of Early Spring Grazing on Meadow in Erzurum, Turkey

Year 2020, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 1 - 4, 31.12.2020

Mahmut Taşçı Zeynep Altunok

Abstract

This study was conducted in irrigated meadow with deep water table level in 2014 in Erzurum, Narman, Demirdag, and aimed to evaluate the effects of early spring grazing on meadows. Soil properties and dry matter yield and some quality parameters such as dry hay yield, crude protein, ADF, NDF and crude ash rates were assessed in meadow. Average dry matter yield was lover in spring grazed site than that of the ungrazed meadow site. Crude protein content was determined as 8.25%, 8.35% in grazed and ungrazed meadow sites, respectively. In spring grazed site ADF and NDF ratio were lower than that of the ungrazed one (36.95%, 36.72%; 55.98%, 56.82%). In grazed meadow site digestible dry matter ratio (60.29%) was lower than that of the ungrazed site (61.40%). Based on the results of the study, it is important to prevent of spring grazing in meadows for increasing of dry matter yield and forage quality.

Keywords

Meadow, Spring grazing, Dry matter yield, Forage quality

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