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Tridax daisy (Tridax procumbens)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This datasheet is pending revision and updating; its contents are currently derived from FAO's Animal Feed Resources Information System (1991-2002) and from Bo Göhl's Tropical Feeds (1976-1982).

Datasheet

Description
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Common names 

Coat buttons, erva de touro, tridax daisy, cadillo chisaca

Species 

Tridax procumbens L. [Asteraceae]

Feed categories 
Related feed(s) 
Distribution 

From Mexico, now a pantropical weed.

Nutritional aspects
Ruminants 

Highly palatable.

Rabbits 

Tridax daisy leaves are valuable fodder for rabbits. When offered to rabbits fed on a concentrate feed, they compared favourably with Leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala), agati (Sesbania grandiflora). Rabbits had higher weight gains and improved feed conversion ratio (2.63 vs 2.88) when receiving Tridax daisy (Singh et al., 2007). Though Tridax daisy gave lower weight gain than dwarf koa (Desmanthus virgatus), it had a better feed conversion ratio (2.63 vs 2.90) (Singh et al., 2007).

Nutritional tables
Tables of chemical composition and nutritional value 
References
References 
Adesogan, A. T. ; Adeneye, J. A. , 2002. The nutritive potential of some underexploited tropical plants. Proc. Int. Conf. British, Am. Mex. Soc. Anim. Sci., Responding to the Increasing global demand for animal products, Merida, Mexico,November, 2002.
Aduku, A. O. ; Dim, N. I. ; Hassan, W., 1989. Evaluation of tropical green forages for dry season feeding of rabbits. J. Appl. Rabbit Res., 12 (2): 113-115
Singh, D. A. P. ; Kumar, P. ; Saravanakumar, V. R., 2007. Production performance of White Giant rabbits fed with Tridax procumbens. Indian Vet. J., 84 (11): 1212-1213 web icon
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