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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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    STANDARDIZATION AND EVALUATION OF CHICKEN CUTLETS PREPARED WITH PUMPKIN
    (Department of Livestock Products Technology College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University Anand, 2020) Taral Bhoomiben Rameshbhai; Dr. M. N. Brahmbhatt
    A study was undertaken to determine the effect of incorporation of pumpkin powder in chicken cutlets. Chicken cutlets were prepared by replacing lean meat with pumpkin powder at 3 levels i.e., 5, 10, 15 percent. The three treatments along with control were evaluated for physico-chemical properties (quality parameters, proximate composition) and sensory evaluation (general appearance, flavour, texture, juiciness and overall acceptability). Each experiment was repeated for four times. There was a significant increase (P<0.05) in cooking yield, crude fibre and ash content with increase level of pumpkin powder incorporation. Product pH, moisture, crude protein and crude fat showed significant decrease (P<0.05) with increase in the level of incorporation of pumpkin powder. Mean sensory scores for treatments were found to be significantly higher (P<0.05) for general appearance, flavour, texture and juiciness when compared to control. The optimum incorporation level of pumpkin powder was found to be 10 % for chicken cutlets preparation.
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    EVALUATION OF PROPHYLACTIC EFFICACY OF PLANTS Boerhavia diffusa AND Tribulus terrestris ON ADENINE INDUCED CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN RATS
    (Department of Veterinary Medicine College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2020) Siddhiben Gunvantbhai Patel; Dr. S.K. Raval
    The present study was conducted to evaluate the prophylactic efficacy of plants Boerhavia diffusa and Tribulus terrestris on adenine induced chronic kidney disease on 30 adult healthy male Wistar rats (12-15 weeks of age). Rats were divided into 4 groups, viz., group-I (Healthy control), II (Adenine control), III (Aqueous biherbal extract of Boerhavia diffusa and Tribulus terrestris, 0.5:1), IV (Alcoholic biherbal extract of Boerhavia diffusa and Tribulus terrestris, 1:1). Group I had 6 rats, and groups II, III and IV had 8 rats each. All the rats were numbered group wise and individually. Group I served as healthy/normal control. Group II served as adenine control, wherein adenine chemical was given @ 200 mg/kg body weight. Groups III and IV served as prophylactic treatment groups, and were given aqueous and alcoholic biherbal extracts, respectively, along with adenine solution for 28 days.
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    CLINICO-ETIODIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT OF VOMITION IN DOGS
    (Department of Veterinary Medicine College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2020) Rimjhim Khanduri; Rimjhim Khanduri; Dr. S. K. Raval; Dr. S. K. Raval
    It has been witnessed that vomiting is a common clinical presentation in small animal practice and may be associated with good sort of both gastrointestinal and systemic diseases. It can be a challenging problem for veterinary clinicians observing that vomition can be associated with a multitude of causes. The present study was carried out for Clinico-etiodiagnosis and therapeutic management of vomition in dogs. A total of 50 cases of vomition were selected for the therapeutic trial. The affected dogs were divided into 3 groups, viz., A, B and C each group comprised of 8 dogs, while eight healthy dogs in group H were used as control for comparison. The haemato-biochemical estimations were done on days 0, 3rd and 10th treatment days.
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    COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INTRADERMAL TUBERCULIN TEST, IMMUNO CHROMATOGRAPHIC ASSAY & POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION FOR DIAGNOSIS AND PREVALENCE OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS
    (DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2020) Chaudhari Pravin J.; Dr. B. B. Bhanderi
    Bovine TB (bTB) is highly infectious, chronic bacterial zoonosis disease. M. tuberculosis primarily affects humans (TB), while M. bovis causes bovine tuberculosis and affects a wide variety of hosts including domestic animals, humans, and wildlife. Present study was carried out on comparison of single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin (SICCT) test, single intradermal tuberculin (SIT) test, immunochromatographic/lateral flow assay (LFA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the diagnosis and prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in Anand, Rajkot and Mehsana districts of Gujarat state. During the period from January-2019 to February-2020, a total of 800 animals (620 cattle & 180 buffalo) from 20 farms were screened by SICCT test. SICCT test was carried out as per OIE Terrestrial Manual (2009) using PPD-A and PPD-B tuberculin’s. The reaction was considered to be positive if there was an increase of 4mm or more in skin-fold thickness in bovine site (PPD-B) than avian site (PPD-A). In the positive animals, increase in skin fold thickness were observed between 4mm to 13mm. Of the 800 SICCT tested animals, 1.37% (11) were SICCT positive, 12.87% (103) were Avian positive (PPD-A) and 10.62% (85) were SIT positive (PPD-B).
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    ETIOPATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF COLISEPTICEMIA WITH COINFECTION OF LOW PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA AND MYCOPLASMA IN BROILERS
    (Department of Veterinary Pathology College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University Anand, 2020) Pradhnya Choudhari; Dr. D. J. Ghodasara
    The present study was carried out to know the mortality pattern, gross and microscopic lesions of the colisepticemia in broiler chicken along with molecular detection of LPAI and avian mycoplasma in colisepticemia affected flocks. The study comprised of farm wise and age wise outbreaks due to Escherichia coli infection, gross and histopathological lesions of different organs, isolation, identification, biochemical characterization, antibiogram profile and molecular detection of virulence associated genes of Escherichia coli. Further, molecular detection of LPAI (H9N2) by RT-PCR and avian mycoplasma (Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae) by PCR in broilers affected with colisepticemia. Studies on the farm wise and age wise outbreak of colisepticemia among thirty broiler farms having total population of 1,71,317 birds of second to fifth week of age showed an average mortality of 1.89 per cent ranging between 0.32 and 6.75 per cent. The age wise outbreaks of colisepticemia revealed mortality 1.65, 1.97, 2.21 and 1.71 per cent during second, third, fourth and fifth week of age respectively. The outbreaks were higher in number during third, fourth and fifth weeks being the susceptible age for colisepticemia.
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    GENETIC STUDIES ON VARIOUS ECONOMIC TRAITS OF TWO STRAINS OF WHITE LEGHORN CHICKEN
    (COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE & ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Patel Ronak R.; Dr. F. P. Savaliya
    The present study was planned for genetic studies on various economic traits of two strains of white leghorn chicken. The experiment was carried out in 12th and 22nd generations of Anand Bantamized White Leghorn (ABWLH) and Anand Synthetic White Leghorn (ASWLH) strains of White Leghorn, respectively, at Poultry Research Station, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Anand Agricultural University, Anand. At 16 weeks of age 372 and 340 pullets of ABWLH and ASWLH strains were housed in Individual California Cage System for recording individual performance, out of which 357 ABWLH and 324 ASWLH pullets have been contributed up to 40 weeks of age. The liveability of ABWLH and ASWLH strains were recorded 95.97 and 95.29 percent, respectively. Various traits like body weight (BW) at day old, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 40 weeks of age, age at first egg (AFE), total egg number produced upto 40 weeks of age (TEN40), egg weight (EW) at 24, 28, 32, 36 and 40 weeks of age and total egg mass produced upto 40 weeks of age (TEM40) were measured and utilized for estimation of least square mean and standard error, heritability and genetic and phenotypic correlations.
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    GENOME-WIDE SNP DETECTION, VALIDATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SNP ARRAY FOR GIR CATTLE
    (Department of Animal Genetics & Breeding College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2020) Patel Mayankkumar R.; Dr. P. G. Koringa
    India is rich in cattle genetic diversity. There are 50 well‐defined breeds of Bos indicus origin. Genetic improvement in indicine breeds would improve economic output to farmers and thereby support the conservation of B. indicus breeds. Most of the current breeding programs in Indian dairy cattle are based on phenotypic records of an individual animal or pedigree‐based selection of breeding bulls based on performance recording of elite cows. However, the accuracy of selection remains low due to a limited number of animals under the study and inaccurate pedigree records ultimately resulting in slow genetic response to selection. In addition to this, a long generation interval of B. indicus animals mainly due to high age at maturity which increases the genetic gain and reduces the response to selection. To overcome these limitations and fairly increase the rate of genetic gain, the genomic selection could be the preferred method in animal breeding.
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    EFFECT OF VARIOUS BREED PROPORTIONS ON BREEDING VALUES FOR VARIOUS TRAITS IN HF CROSSBRED CATTLE
    (Department of Animal Genetics & Breeding College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2020) Patel Komal Natvarlal; Dr. D. N. Rank
    The present study on “Effect of various breed proportions on breeding values for various traits in HF crossbred cattle” was conducted with objectives: (i) to determine the proportions of exotic inheritance in the crossbred cows by SNP genotyping (ii) to study genetic parameters for production traits and AFC in crossbred cattle (iii) to estimate breeding values of sires for various traits in crossbred cattle (iv) to study the effect of various breed proportions on estimates of breeding value for various traits in crossbred cattle. For this, a total of 1,59,950 first lactation test day milk yield records of 17135 HF crossbred cows sired by 259 sires spread over a period of 23 years (1997-2019) belonging to four districts of Gujarat state viz., Panchmahal, Sabarkantha, Surat and Tapi were collected from the INAPH-MIS database maintained by NDDB, Anand. The number of records, minimum, maximum and average values were 159950, 1.00 kg, 24.93 kg and 9.12 kg for test day milk yield; 142400, 0.03 kg, 1.59 kg and 0.38 kg for test day fat yield; 133377, 0.07 kg, 2.36 kg and 0.80 kg for test day solid not fat yield; 131465, 0.02 kg, 1.03 kg and 0.30 kg for test day protein yield, respectively. The number of records, minimum, maximum and average values were 15642, 2.50%, 6.40% and 4.18% for fat percent; 14770, 7.81%, 9.95% and 8.78% for solid not fat percent; 14746, 2.43%, 4.30% and 3.34% for protein percent, respectively.
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    EFFECT OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION OF L-THREONINE ON PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BROILER CHICKEN
    (POULTRY RESEARCH STATION COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE & A. H. ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2020) Parmar Yashkumar S.; Dr. R. S. Joshi
    To study the effect of dietary supplementation of different level of L-Threonine with reduced crude protein level on performance of commercial broilers this experiment was carried out on two hundred and twenty four (224) straight run day-old commercial broiler chicks of a single hatch. The Chicks were randomly distributed to seven treatments, consisting of 32 chicks in each treatment. Each treatment consisted of four replicates with eight chicks per replicate. The experiment was conducted for a period of six weeks. The eight treatments were: T1 diet (Basal Diet + L-Threonine as per NRC requirement). T2 diet with 0.5% CP Reduction than basal diet with addition of 10% L-Threonine, T3 diet with 1.0% CP Reduction than basal diet with addition of 10% L-Threonine, T4 diet with 1.5% CP Reduction than basal diet with addition of 10% L-Threonine T5 diet with 0.5% CP Reduction than basal diet with addition of 15% L-Threonine, T6 diet with 1.0% CP Reduction than basal diet with addition of 15% L-Threonine and T7 diet with 1.5% CP Reduction than basal diet with addition of 15% L-