Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2019)
Effects of feeding urea molasses treated straw based total mixed ration on growth performance in cross bred Calves
Author(s): Ekramul Hoque, TK Dutta, A Chatterjee and D Satapathy
Abstract: A growth trial for a period of 90 days was undertaken with main objectives to study the effects of feeding urea-molasses treated paddy straw based total mixed ration on nutrient utilization and growth performance. For this, a total of 15 no. of animals were selected and divided in to 3 groups (T0, T1, T2, n=5)) basing their body weight. The animals in control group (T0) were fed rations containing untreated paddy straw, green fodder and concentrate mixture. In T1 group, urea-molasses treated paddy straw was provide instead of untreated paddy straw of T0. Total Mixed Ration (TMR) prepared with same ratio and composition as in T1 group was fed to the calves in T2 group. Significantly (p≤0.001) higher DMI, CPI were observed in treatment groups as compared to control groups during the growth trial. The average daily body weight gain (g/d/animal) was significantly (p≤0.001) higher in the treatment groups (T2 and T1) than the control group (T0), values being 578.89, 545.56 and 378.89 for T2, T1 and T0, respectively. Highest feed conversion efficiency for growth (kg live weight gain/100 kg DMI) was observed in treatment groups (T1 and T2) over control group (T0). As digestibility is concerned, digestibility coefficient of most of the nutrients like dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, organic matter, NDF, ADF, calcium and phosphorus were higher in the treatment groups (T1 and T2) as compared to that of control group. Therefore, from the present study, it may be concluded that feeding of urea-molasses straw based TMR resulted in higher feed intake, weight gain.
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Ekramul Hoque, TK Dutta, A Chatterjee, D Satapathy. Effects of feeding urea molasses treated straw based total mixed ration on growth performance in cross bred Calves. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(1):1581-1584.
