Vol. 7, Issue 2 (2019)
Effect of feeding different levels of Moringa oleifera leaves on digestibility of nutrients in Sirohi goat kids
Author(s): Padma Meel, ML Gurjar, RK Nagda, Shweta Choudhary, Manju, and Mahendra Meel
Abstract: A six months study was conducted on 40 Sirohi goat kids to evaluate the effect of feeding different levels of Moringa oleifera leaves on digestibility of nutrients. The sirohi goat kids were randomly distributed in five groups of eight in each group on the basis of age and uniform conformation. The group T1 offered 60% Methi straw (Trigonella foenum-graecum) as a roughage and 40% commercially available readymade concentrate feed and in groups T2, T3, T4 and T5, the commercially available readymade concentrate feed were replaced by Moringa oleifera leaves at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% levels, respectively. During entire period of experiment, measured quantity of feed were provided to each animal every morning and the left over were weighted in next morning to assess daily consumption. At the end of feeding trial, the digestibility trials were conducted by conventional type collection method for estimation of digestibility of the different nutrients. Results showed that the dry matter intakes and digestibility coefficient of DM, CP, NFE were significantly higher (P<0.05) in group T4. The digestibility coefficient of EE and CF were non-significant (P<0.05). It can be concluded that feeding of Moringa oleifera leaves replacing commercially available concentrate feed at 75% level to improve digestibility of dry matter and gross nutrients in Sirohi goat kids.
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Padma Meel, ML Gurjar, RK Nagda, Shweta Choudhary, Manju,, Mahendra Meel. Effect of feeding different levels of Moringa oleifera leaves on digestibility of nutrients in Sirohi goat kids. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(2):1404-1408.
