The mixing silage of water hyacinth and maize straw under the low moisture conditions

Abstract: Three mixture ratios of water hyacinth （Eichhornia crassipes） and maize (Zea mays) stalk at 9∶1, 8∶2 and 7∶3 （W9M1, W8M2 and W7M3） with the addition of noadditive, fermented green juice (FGJ), formic acid and foraform (FOR), were designed to investigate the effects of mixing ensilage of water hyacinth and maize stalk on the fermentation quality in this study. The nutritional compositions were measured for each treatment after ensiling for 60 days at ambient temperature. This study showed that three kinds of additives significantly improved the fermentation quality of mixing silages of water hyacinth and maize straw (P0.01). W9M1 was the best and had higher DM recovery than W8M2 and W7M3 did (P0.05). The WSC contents of noadditive and FGJ in W7M3 was significantly higher than those in W9M1 and W8M2 (P0.01).