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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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Subject: Poultry Science × Start date: 2014 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    EFFICACY OF PRELAY DIET ON PERFORMANCE OF WHITE LEGHORN LAYERS
    (POULTRY RESEARCH STATION COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE & A. H. ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2021) Lonkar Vijaysinh Dhansing; Dr. F. P. Savaliya
    Two experiments (I and II), each of with 25 (16th -40th) weeks duration, were conducted to evaluate the effect of various nutrient density prelay diets subsequently fed with same layer diet (experiment-I) and the effect of best prelay diet subsequently fed with various nutrient density layer diets (experiment-II) on the performance of White Leghorn layers.
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    EFFECT OF VARYING DIETARY CRUDE PROTEIN AND TRYPTOPHAN LEVELS ON PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE OF WHITE LEGHORN BIRDS
    (POULTRY RESEARCH STATION COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2019) Raisbhai Mahmmadbhai Rajpura; Dr. F. P. Savaliya
    The present study was conducted in White Leghorn layer birds from 21-40 weeks of age to evaluate effect of varying dietary crude protein and tryptophan levels on production performance. The study was conducted at Poultry Research Station, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Anand Agricultural University, Anand. A total of 192 White Leghorn pullets of uniform were selected and distributed into eight treatments groups each with four replicates and each replicate having six birds and placed in individual California cages. Eight iso-caloric (2600 ME kcal/kg feed) treatment diets were formulated having two level of crude protein i.e. 14 and 16% each with four levels of tryptophan i.e. 0.17, 0.19, 0.21 and 0.23% and constant level of Lysine (0.80%), Methionine + Cysteine (0.70%) and Threonine (0.64%). Synthetic L-Tryptophan were supplemented at the rate of 30, 50, 70 and 90 g/100 kg feed in 14% crude protein diet and 00, 20, 40, 60 g/100 kg feed in 16% crude protein diet to achieve 0.17, 0.19, 0.21 & 0.23% tryptophan levels, respectively. DL-Methionine and L-Lysine were also supplemented to maintain their constant dietary levels in feed. The performance in terms of hen day egg production (HD%), hen day egg number (HDEN), hen housed egg number (HHEN), egg weight (g), egg mass (g per hen per day), feed intake (g/bird), feed intake (g/egg), feed efficiency (g/g egg mass), feed cost (Rs./egg), body weight (g) and egg quality parameters were studied.
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    EFFECT OF DIETARY LEVELS OF INORGANIC AND ORGANIC TRACE MINERALS ON PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION TRAITS OF LAYER BREEDERS
    (POULTRY RESEARCH STATION COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2019) Avinash Sahebrao Kadam; Dr. R. S. Joshi
    Trace mineral supplementation is essential for poultry. Inorganic trace minerals are added to feed in the form of inorganic salts, such as sulfates, oxides, and carbonates. However, their bioavailability is low due to the antagonism and interactions among trace minerals, as well as with other compounds forming insoluble compounds, and preventing their absorption by the body. Hence, they are usually added to the diets at levels higher than the bird’s actual requirements causing environmental pollution due to higher excretion of minerals in droppings. The organic trace minerals are specific metal amino acid complexes from a combination of soluble metal salts and amino acids having higher bioavailability. Studies on use of organic trace minerals in layer breeders are meager.