Vol. 6, Issue 4 (2018)
Effect of feeding decorticated cottonseed cake on growth performance of crossbred calves
Author(s): Rekha Mourya, JP Sehgal, Lalesh Patil and Arun Mourya
Abstract: To observe the effects of partial replacement of soybean (de-oiled) meal with cottonseed expeller or decorticated solvent extracted cottonseed cake on voluntary feed intake,; growth of calves; blood profile and feed efficiency; 18 Karan fries female calves of similar age (8-9 months) and body weight (114-115 kg) were randomly divided into three groups of each and allotted diets ‘C’, ‘T-1’ or ‘T-2’. The diet ‘C’ having 15% soybean meal, which was replaced by 10 parts with cottonseed cake expeller in ‘T-1’ diet or 10 parts by decorticated cottonseed cake solvent extracted in ‘T-2’ diet. All the crossbred female calves were fed individually rations (wheat straw: concentrate 50:50) along with 10kg oats green fodder/ animal/ day. Body weight was recorded fortnightly and blood samples collected at monthly intervals. The average daily gains were observed to be significantly higher (P≤0.05) in group ‘T-2’ (750±51g/day) than group ‘C’ (634±61 g/day) and group ‘T-1’ (583±37 g/day). Nitrogen balance was significantly higher in ‘T-2’ (37.30±5.61) and ‘C’ (30.95±2.61) than ‘T-1’ (28.78±1.14), all animals were found in positive nitrogen balance. Blood urea nitrogen was significantly higher (P≤0.05) in ‘T-2’ (18.08±0.64) than ‘C’ (14.77±0.61) and ‘T-1’ (14.67±0.58) while blood glucose, total protein, albumin, globulin, albumin: globulin ratio and haemoglobin not differ significantly in all three groups. The cost for per kg body weight gain was(Rs) 73.65, 69.38 and 56.78 in ‘C’, ‘T-1’ and ‘T-2’ respectively. It can be concluded that soybean meal de-oiled can be replaced 10 parts with decorticated solvent extracted cottonseed cake to have higher growth rate; nutritive digestibility; nutritive evaluation and feed conversion efficiency in growing female calves.
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Rekha Mourya, JP Sehgal, Lalesh Patil, Arun Mourya. Effect of feeding decorticated cottonseed cake on growth performance of crossbred calves. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(4):254-257.
