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Feeding of Jowar Straw in Combination with Soybean Straw on the Growth Performance of Sahiwal Heifers


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Experiment was designed to improve the utilization of soybean straw by simple physical mixing of conventional feed Jowar straw with soybean straw. The six Sahiwal heifers were selected on the basis of nearness to age and body weight and these were exposed to three different treatments in each 2 heifers. Three feeding treatment were studied namely T1 - Jowar straw (Ad.lib) +3kg green fodder+1kg concentrate, T 2 - 50% Jowar straw +50% soybean straws + 3kg green fodder +0.750kg concentrate, T3 -soybean straw (Ad lib) +3kg green fodder +0.500kg concentrate (Dry green and concentrate feeding will be provided on the basis of DCP and TDN required as per feeding standard).Total experiment period was of 95 days in switch over design with a period of 27 days per period. An attempt was made to study the effect of Feeding of jowar straw in combination with soybean straw on feed intake, dry matter intake of Sahiwal heifers. The DMI intake and body weight gain during the experiment period were found significantly superior in T2 treatment over T1 and T3.

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Jowar straw, Soybean straw, Concentrate, Sahiwal heifers.
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Authors

Minakshi S. Mahalle
Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science, Post Graduate Institute, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.), India
S. D. Chavan
Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science, Post Graduate Institute, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.), India
N. S. Mawal
Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science, Post Graduate Institute, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.), India

Abstract


Experiment was designed to improve the utilization of soybean straw by simple physical mixing of conventional feed Jowar straw with soybean straw. The six Sahiwal heifers were selected on the basis of nearness to age and body weight and these were exposed to three different treatments in each 2 heifers. Three feeding treatment were studied namely T1 - Jowar straw (Ad.lib) +3kg green fodder+1kg concentrate, T 2 - 50% Jowar straw +50% soybean straws + 3kg green fodder +0.750kg concentrate, T3 -soybean straw (Ad lib) +3kg green fodder +0.500kg concentrate (Dry green and concentrate feeding will be provided on the basis of DCP and TDN required as per feeding standard).Total experiment period was of 95 days in switch over design with a period of 27 days per period. An attempt was made to study the effect of Feeding of jowar straw in combination with soybean straw on feed intake, dry matter intake of Sahiwal heifers. The DMI intake and body weight gain during the experiment period were found significantly superior in T2 treatment over T1 and T3.

Keywords


Jowar straw, Soybean straw, Concentrate, Sahiwal heifers.

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