Effect of feeding guar meal on nutrient utilization and growth performance in Mahbubnagar local kids

Abstract

Aim:This study was conducted to evaluate the growth performance and nutrient digestibility of guar meal, an unconventional protein-rich feed ingredient in kids in comparison to conventional groundnut cake.Materials and Methods:A total of 18 kids were randomly allotted to three groups, and T1 group was fed on basal diet, T2 and T3 groups were offered diet replacing groundnut cake at 50% and 100% with guar meal, respectively, for a period of 120-day. At the end of the growth trial, a digestibility trial was conducted to evaluate the nutrient utilization.Results:There was no significant difference in dry matter intake among three groups. Nutrient digestibilities were significantly higher (p<0.05) in kids fed T2 ration with 50% replacement of groundnut cake with guar meal.Conclusion:It can be concluded that guar meal can be incorporated at 50% level in the concentrate mixture of goats replacing groundnut cake without any adverse effects.

Practical Application of Guar (Cyamopsistetragonoloba L. Taub) Meal in Poultry Nutrition

“…Another study revealed optimum inclusion level at 50 g/ kg of sprouted guar than roasted guar bean meal suggested beneficial for growth in broiler diets (Madzimure et al, 2017). A study of Janampet et al (2016) confirmed that the inclusion of 50% guar meal instead of groundnut cake enhanced the growth rate and digestion coefficient of nutrients without any adverse effects on performance. No significant difference was observed in the growth performance among guar meal groups.…”

“…Fairly higher CP contents like 45.9%, 36.9%, and 38.5% have been reported in guar germ, hull, and combined guar by-products, respectively (Lee et al, 2004). Recently, the percentage of DM, organic matter (OM), CP, EE, CF, nitrogen-free extract (NFE), ash, acid detergent fiber and neutral detergent fiber for guar meal were 93.56, 94.66, 49.52, 3.59, 4.46, 37.09, 5.35, 22.59 and 44.05 respectively, on DM basis ( Janampet et al, 2016). Chemical compositions of GM and SBM are explained in Table 1.…”

Pretreatment and Multi-Feed Anaerobic Co-digestion of Agro-Industrial Residual Biomass for Improved Biomethanation and Kinetic Analysis

“…Guar or cluster bean, with the botanical name Cyamopsis tetragonoloba drought tolerant legume grown in the Rajasthan state of India. Guar meal is a protein and fiber rich nutritional food for livestock containing germ and hull part of it (Janampet et al, 2016). Rajasthan produces Guar crop 2,204,931 tons annually in 2014-15.…”

The Nutritive Value of Guar Meal and its Effect on Growth Performance of Meat Ducks

“…The guar bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) is an annual legume belonging to the Fabaceae family, which native to Africa, and now mainly produced in India and Pakistan (Pach and Nagel, 2018). Guar meal (GM) is a byproduct from guar gum industry, obtained after mechanical separation of endosperm from both germ and hull of guar seed (Janampet et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2017). GM contains approximately 30-60 % protein on dry matter basis (Nidhina and Muthukumar, 2015;Janampet et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2017;Pach and Nagel, 2018) and its amino acid (AA) composition quite similar to that of ground nut cake (Verma and McNab, 1984).…”

“…Guar meal (GM) is a byproduct from guar gum industry, obtained after mechanical separation of endosperm from both germ and hull of guar seed (Janampet et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2017). GM contains approximately 30-60 % protein on dry matter basis (Nidhina and Muthukumar, 2015;Janampet et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2017;Pach and Nagel, 2018) and its amino acid (AA) composition quite similar to that of ground nut cake (Verma and McNab, 1984). It seems that GM is a desirable and viable protein source for animal feed formulators, especially when the rocketing prices of feed raw material.…”