With the aim of evaluating the nutritive value of millet silage [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Brown], an experiment was carried out in the dependencies of the Animal Science Department of UFLA, using the millet established on a Typical Very Clay Texture Distroferric Red Latosol. The treatments consisted of three cultivars (BRS 1501, BN 1 and Comum) and three cutting ages, 70, 90 and 110 days for silage, sown in November/2003. The experimental outline used was the one of randomized blocks, constituting into a factorial with 3 x 3 (3 cultivars x 3cutting ages) with three replications. For the silages, there were significant differences among cutting ages for the contents of DM, CP, N-NH3 and pH, varying from 21.34 to 36.83%, 7.13 to 9.50%, 1.21 to 1.38% and 3.48 to 3.77, respectively. For the production of millet silage, the cultivar BN 1 planted in November can be harvested at 90 days of age, for overcoming the others in bromathological composition.
Bromathological composition; cutting ages; Pennisetum glaucum
