Evaluation of Some Wheat Cultivars as Roughage

This study was carried out during the growingseason of 2015-2016 to determine the roughage value of some wheat cultivars. Inthe study, 3 bread wheat (Pehlivan, Aras, Cham-6) and 5 durum wheat (Eminbey,Bakrajo-1, Ovanto, Simito and Acsad-65) cultivars were used as plant material.Experiments were conducted in randomized complete blocks design with threereplications. Plant height, green herbage yield, dry herbage yield, crudeprotein ratio, protein yield, acid detergent fiber, neutral detergent fiber,calcium, magnesium, phosphor and potassium ratios were investigated. Plantheights between 70.3 and 81.8 cm, green herbage yields between 694.0 and 2560.0kg da-1, dry herbage yields between 237.4 and 824.9 kg da-1,crude protein ratios between 10.60 and 12.85%, protein yields between 29.6 and98.5 kg da-1, acid detergent fiber ratios between 30.78 and 34.92%,neutral detergent fiber ratios between 51.86 and 57.26%, calcium ratios between0.36 and 0.47%, magnesium ratios between 0.11 and 0.17%, phosphor ratiosbetween 0.35 and 0.38% and potassium ratios between 1.61 and 2.22% havechanged. In the study,Aras and Acsad-65 cultivarsfor high green herbage, dry herbage and protein yields; Simito and Bakrajo-1cultivars for low acid detergent fiber, neutral detergent fiber ratios and highcalcium and magnesium contents were better results as roughage at wheatcultivars.