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- Title
SERO-BIOCHEMICAL IMPACT OF PROCESSED KARANJ SEED BASED DIETS ON GROWING GOAT KIDS.
- Authors
Thakur, Sonal; Reddy, B. S. V.; Sharma, Tribhuwan; Agrawal, Vijay Kumar
- Abstract
A study was conducted in goat kids to investigate the effect of feeding solvent extracted karanj cake (SKC) and alkali processed solvent extracted karanj cake (AKC) based diets on the sero-biochemical diagnostic parameters, i.e., serum enzymes, to assess health status and dry matter intake. Twenty male goat kids of uniform age were submitted to one of the five diets containing two different levels of either SKC or AKC for 17 weeks in a completely randomized design. The T1 group was offered groundnut cake (GNC) as a sole source of nitrogen whereas T2 and T3 group were offered SKC @ 8.09% and 16.18% of concentrate mixtures, respectively to replace 25% and 50% of GNC nitrogen. Similarly T4 and T5 were fed AKC @ 8.09% and 16.18% of concentrate mixtures, respectively to replace the 25% and 50% of GNC nitrogen. No adverse effect of either SKC or AKC was observed on serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) enzyme. No significant effect of either SKC or AKC on the dry matter intake was observed in goat kids raised on concentrate mixtures containing karanj seed cakes. Therefore, the results indicates that long term supplementation of SKC or AKC up to 25% replacement of conventional nitrogen source have no adverse effect on health as revealed by dry matter intake and sero-biochemical enzymes.
- Subjects
ANIMAL feeding behavior; SEROLOGY; PROCESSED foods; GOAT feeding &; feeds; ANIMAL health indicators; DIETARY supplements
- Publication
Veterinary Practitioner, 2016, Vol 17, Issue 1, p138
- ISSN
0972-4036
- Publication type
Article