For studying the effect of accelerated feeding method on growth and carcass traits thirty male kids (aged 30 -45 days) of Tellicherry breed were divided into two groups, control (C) and test (T) groups. The control group kids were fed with concentrate feed consisting of 15% crude protein (CP) and 75% Total Digestible Nutrient (TDN). The test group kids were fed with concentrate feed containing of 21% crude Protein (CP) and 75% Total Digestible Nutrient (TDN). Significant (P less than 0.01) increase in body weight in average total body weight gain and average daily body weight were observed in both groups. Cost of production per kg live weight gain significantly (P less than 0.0001) reduced. High significant difference (P less than 0.01) was noticed in pre slaughter weight, carcass weight, dressed weight, dressing percentage, weight of stomach, head and liver. The present study concluded that feeding the kids with high protein level along with mineral mixure had significantly increased the body weight gain, growth performance, dressing percentage, carcass yield and quality.
Different seeds such as barley, wheat and yellow maize were utilized for fodder production by hydroponic method. However, this novel experiment was aimed to study the effect of hydroponic horse gram fodder and hydroponic sun hemp fodder with 50% replacement of concentrate mixture on the growth performance in Tellicherry kids. Sixty male Tellicherry kids at the age of 3 months were randomly divided into 3 groups each having 20 kids' viz. treatment 1 (100% concentrate), treatment 2 (50% concentrate + hydroponic horse gram fodder) and treatment 3 (50% concentrate + hydroponic sun hemp fodder). Palatability trial was conducted for a period of 7 days to assess the maximum intake of hydroponic fodders by the kids. After analyzing the palatability and chemical composition, feeding trial was formulated on as fed basis. Duration of the study was 30 days. Production parameters such as total body weight gain (kg), daily body weight gain (kg), total feed intake/head/30 day (kg) (DM basis) and feed conversion efficiency (%) and cost of feeding were studied. After analysis of collected data, no significant difference was noticed between the groups in terms of total body weight gain, daily body weight gain, total feed intake/head/30 day on DM basis and feed conversion efficiency. Cost of feeding/animal was lower in sun hemp fodder fed groups. Thus, hydroponic horse gram fodder and sun hemp fodder can be used as an alternative for concentrate mixture in the feed ration of Tellicherry kids.
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