A report by AG's Animal production service (AGAP) says that, in terms of digestible nutrients, mulberry produces more than most traditional forages. The leaves can be used as the main feed for goats, sheep and rabbits, as
A report by AG's Animal production service (AGAP) says that, in terms of digestible nutrients, mulberry produces more than most traditional forages. The leaves can be used as the main feed for goats, sheep and rabbits, as supplements replacing concentrates for dairy cattle, and as an ingredient in the diets of monogastric livestock, such as pigs. "It is surprising," says animal nutrition specialist Manuel Sánchez, who recently helped conduct an AGAP email conference on mulberry, "that a plant used to feed the silk worm, which has high nutritional feed requirements, has received such limited attention from livestock producers, technicians and researchers."
Trees travelled with silk worms. Over the centuries, mulberry trees have accompanied the spread of silk worm production throughout the world - to the temperate areas of