Nutrient digestibility and live weight change in yaks fed maize stover based complete feed block during winter
2011
Ghosh, M.K. | Chatterjee, A.
The study was undertaken to see the effect of feeding complete feed block (CFB) on dry matter intake, body weight change and digestibility of proximate nutrients in yak. The values were compared with the control group fed diet supplemented with concentrate mixture. The CFB was prepared using maize stover (60%), concentrate mixture (37%) and molasses (3%) as binding agent. The dry matter intake (DMI) /100 kg body weight were 1.73 kg in control group and 1.52 kg in CFB fed group. Digestibility of DM, CP, CF and EE were recorded as 61.24 and 60.93; 65.13 and 65.44; 51.47 and 50.12 and 66.34 and 65.15 for control group and feed block fed group, respectively. The total live weight gain in control group and the CFB groups were 17.32 kg and 16.52 kg, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between 2 groups for any of the parameter. The findings of the present experiment had shown that CFB can replace the diet supplemented with concentrate mixture without any adverse effect on voluntary feed intake digestibility and body weight change in yaks during winter.
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