Effect of tanniferous leaf meal mixture based multi nutrient blocks on nutrient utilization and biochemical profile of Haemonchus contortus infected goats

Abstract

The experiment was carried out in 12 local adult male goats of average body weights (26.49±0.87, kg) and they were allocated in 3 groups (4 goats in each). Multi nutrient blocks (MNB) were supplemented in first two groups i.e. in T 1 (no infection) and T 2 (Haemonchus contortus infection @ 1500 larvae) group, while, condensed tannins (CT) containing multi nutrient blocks (MNB-CT) were supplemented in T 3 (H. contortus infection @ 1500 larvae) group in completely randomized block design during a feeding trial of 75 days. All the animals were fed concentrate mixture @ 100g/ day, adlib wheat straw and MNB or MNB-CT to meet their maintenance requirement. Daily intakes (kg W 0.75 ) of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), concentrate mixture, MNB, MNB-CT, wheat straw and digestibility of DM, OM, crude protein (CP) and acid detergent fibre (ADF) differed significantly (P<0.05) irrespective of groups. MNB-CT supplementation significantly (P<0.001) reduced serum urea (mg/dl) level and faecal egg counts (FECs) in T 3 group as compared to MNB supplemented (T 2 ) group. Serum proteins differed significantly (P<0.001) among groups. It may be concluded that MNB-CT supplementation indicates a positive impact on protein bioavailability and encouraging impact on nutrient utilization, biochemical constituents and health status of goats by lowering serum urea and FECs.

Implications of Tannin Containing Plants for Productivity and Health in Small Ruminant Animals: A Review

“…Gastrointestinal parasitism in sheep and goats is directly associated with anemia and hypoproteinaemia resulting from endogenous protein and blood losses. Studies show that supplementation with CT containing forages alleviate impacts of parasitism in sheep and goats (Arroyo-Lopez et al, 2014;Singh et al, 2016). A pasture trial conducted by Merera et al (2013) showed that supplementation with Leucaene pallida significantly increased packed cell volume (PCV) of nematode infected Horro lambs compared to those assigned grazing alone.…”

“…A number of studies have examined the effects of CT on different biochemical variables (hemoglobin, Protein, Implications of Tannin Containing Plants for Productivity and Health in Small Ruminant Animals: A Review urea, mast cells, pan cells, mean corpuscular cells, globulin, eosinophil) in parasitized sheep (Azuhnwi et al, 2013;Rios-De-Álvarez et al, 2014) and goats (Singh et al, 2016) receiving different tanniniferous forages. Azuhnwi et al (2013) reported increased in plasma essential and semiessential amino acids (AA) concentration in lambs artificially infected with H. contortus fed sainfoin.…”

Influence of concentrate supplementation on production and reproduction performance of female Black Bengal goat

“…There are about 14.8 million goats in Bangladesh (DLS, 2015). Goat farming is crucially important for provision of milk, meat, hides and manures for human need that plays a great role in removing out of poverty and as a means of livelihood in the rural landless farmers in developing countries (Peacock et al, 2005;Hassan et al, 2007;Singh et al, 2016).…”