Leucaena as an Alternative Forage and Concentrate Substitute for Barbadian Dairy Goats

A project by Zachary Goldberg, Erik Hauner, and Natasha Salter for the BITS program of McGill University and the University of the West Indies.
Leucaena is a high-protein legume growing wild throughout Barbados. Its use as a forage for dairy goats could reduce the use of expensive concentrate feed. As such, there is potential to reduce production costs as well as the dependence on foreign imports. But can leucaena support adequate milk yields and does it really reduce costs?
Leucaena: www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/du...
McGill University: www.mcgill.ca/
The University of the West Indies: www.uwi.edu/index.asp
The BITS program: www.mcgill.ca/bits/

[@goatvetoz]

Leucaena is widely used for beef cattle in Australia . Also used for goats as browse. Great video about how to do a on farm trial

[@briank592]

boards of canada and Leucaena?! this is my shit! a huge fan of both! grew up on Boards of canada, and grow Leucaena out here in tucson AZ usa. i love this. good video!

[@ciceroaraujo2552]

these kids are doing a great work

[@Dhir.iyo.deef.]

Thank you so much we need more research like this I am very interesting what you doing

[@drpk6514]

Concentrate feed is dry and cannot be compared with equal fresh weight of green food unless you calculate its comparable dry weight.

[@afid6]

this native leucaena is a good forage for cattle,but i never see photos or information of these variety,only of leucaena leucocephola in internet

[@afid6]

i have a little herd of saanen goats,and this year i want to plant,trees like leucaena,gliricidia sepium and guazuma ulmifolia in the prairies.i want to send photos of the native leucaena.

[@MistressOP]

Leucaena can turn into a pretty big invasive. it could also possibly pump down the water table. Azolla is actually a much smarter bet. As it's native.Or another water base food system.

[@adeeljamil4588]

good luck bro ...keep ur spirt

[@aggabus]

adeel jamil and spurt

[@afid6]

hi,i have goats in honduras y want to know if leucaena can be used as hay

[@twostreetmania]

Leucaena probably cannot be used as hay because when the plant wilts, the leaflets fall off the stem, so it would be hard to use as hay. Thanks for your question.

[@aggabus]

mow leucae like grass... frequent

[@israelwore1669]

Ok Ok, the three rolling leucaena

[@afid6]

in my town we have a native leucaena,but not is leucaena leucocephola,is a rare breed of leucaena

[@aggabus]

leuki taste like broccoli and peanut....eat the bean pod green