Evaluation of the Nutritive Value of Selected Browse Plant Species in the Southern Guinea Savannah of Nigeria for Feeding to Ruminant Animals

Abstract

One of the major problems of ruminant production in the tropics is the scarcity of quality forage all the year round. Gliricidia sepium which remains green even during drought has been extensively used for forage during forage scarcity. However, there is need to screen more browse species to broaden the feed base to improve ruminant animal production. Ten common but less utilized browse plants ( Ficus polita , Ficus cogensis, Daniella oleiveri , Prosopis africana, Parkia biglobosa , Gliricidia sepium , Ecliptaalba , Albizia odoratissima , Polyalthia longifolia and Moringaoleifera ) were Original Research Article