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Subject: Animal Nutrition × Author: GIRISH, S. × End date: 2024 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis ×
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    EFFECT OF FEEDING TAMARIND (Tamarindus indica) SEED KERNEL INCORPORATED DIET ON INTAKE AND NUTRIENT UTILIZATION IN LARGE WHITE YORKSHIRE PIGLETS
    (KARNATAKA VETERINARY, ANIMAL AND FISHERIES SCIENCES UNIVERSITY, NANDINAGAR, BIDAR, 2022) GIRISH, S.; SUMA, N.)
    A study was designed to examine whether Large White Yorkshire pigs had any effect of feeding tamarind (Tamarindus indica) seed kernel incorporated diet on feed intake and nutrient utilization. The conventional swine diet (T1) was formulated to meet ICAR (2013) specifications and other two test diets were compounded with 5% (T2) and 10% (T3) tamarind seed kernel inclusion in control diet. A total of 18 piglets at 10th week were divided in to three treatment groups in a completely randomised design. Measured quantity of respective diet was individually offered to six animals each housed in separate pens for 12 weeks. All other standard managemental practices followed were uniform for all the animals. Analysed chemical composition of tamarind seed kernel was found to contain OM-95.03%, CP-19.95%, EE-7.55%, CF-2.73%, TA-4.97% and calculated NFE-64.80%. This test sample was also composed of good amounts of essential amino acids. Other constituents like phenols, flavonoids and tannins remained lower in tamarind seed kernel than husk. Daily feed intake of animals on dry matter basis was recorded as 1478g in T1, 1472 in T2 and 1468 in T3. Whereas, initial and final body weights for T1, T2 and T3 groups were 12.82 and 46.73kg; 12.85 and 48.40kg; and 12.78 and 46.73kg, respectively. Hence, the total body weight gains (kg) as well as daily gains (g) were 33.92 and 382.1 in T1, 35.55 and 384.7 in T2 and 33.95 and 382.4 in T3, respectively. Finally, the FCR was derived to be statistically non-significant (P ≥ 0.05) among all the treatments with an average value of 3.86. Digestibility of different nutrients were also showed statistically similar values between the treatments. Net returns were more from T2 group than other two groups (T1 and T3). The study results concluded that opted levels of tamarind seed kernel (up to