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Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar

After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a Rural University on the land-grant pattern of USA. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India, the Technical Cooperation Mission and some land-grant universities of USA, was signed to promote agricultural education in the country. The US universities included the universities of Tennessee, the Ohio State University, the Kansas State University, The University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. The task of assisting Uttar Pradesh in establishing an agricultural university was assigned to the University of Illinois which signed a contract in 1959 to establish an agricultural University in the State. Dean, H.W. Hannah, of the University of Illinois prepared a blueprint for a Rural University to be set up at the Tarai State Farm in the district Nainital, UP. In the initial stage the University of Illinois also offered the services of its scientists and teachers. Thus, in 1960, the first agricultural university of India, UP Agricultural University, came into being by an Act of legislation, UP Act XI-V of 1958. The Act was later amended under UP Universities Re-enactment and Amendment Act 1972 and the University was rechristened as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP. The University was dedicated to the Nation by the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960. The G.B. Pant University is a symbol of successful partnership between India and the United States. The establishment of this university brought about a revolution in agricultural education, research and extension. It paved the way for setting up of 31 other agricultural universities in the country.

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Subject: Poultry Science × End date: 2021 × Start date: 2021 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Genetic studies on reproduction and production traits of Uttara breed of chicken and its crosses
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2021-08) Chandankar, Sonali D.; Shive Kumar
    The data for the present study were obtained from 1711 progenies of 288 dams and 48 sires from 12 hatches maintained at Instructional Poultry Farm (I.P.F) of University. A total eight genetic groups viz. Cross 1 (Uttara × White Cornish), cross 2 (White Cornish × Uttara), cross 3 (Uttara × Uttara), cross 4 (White Cornish × White Cornish), cross 5 (Uttara × Kadaknath), cross 6 (Kadaknath × Uttara), cross 7 (Uttara × White Leghorn) and cross 8 (White Leghorn × Uttara) were developed for the present experiment. The aim of the experiment was to study growth traits, production traits, conformation traits, carcass traits, proximate analysis of meat samples, egg quality traits, haemato-biochemical traits, heritability estimates, genetic and phenotypic correlations of different crosses. The data were recorded on males of body weights from day old to 22 weeks at 2 weeks interval. The average of 22 weeks body weight in C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7 and C8 crosses were 1360.89 ± 5.59, 1292.65 ± 5.68, 1290.33 ± 5.75, 1289.24 ± 5.81, 1252.69 ± 9.79, 1241.15 ± 6.36, 1272.46 ± 11.39 and 1277.98 ± 8.24 gm and corresponding values in females were 1299.14 ± 3.21, 1232.81 ± 4.58, 1235.18 ± 12.50, 1229.28 ± 6.55, 1189.94±12.51, 1169.82 ± 9.26, 1225.60 ± 8.70 and 1216.41 ± 7.72 gm respectively. The higher body weights were observed in cross 1 for males and females than other crosses. The lower age at first egg found in cross 1 and higher egg production found in cross 7 and 8 than the other crosses. The egg weight at 35 weeks of age was found higher in cross 7 than the other crosses. The higher values of conformation traits for males and females found in cross 1 than other crosses. Cross 1 had the highest percentage in most of the carcass traits which is considered as desirable traits followed by other crosses. The proximate analysis of meat in present study indicates that cross 1 had highest crude protein and lower fat per cent in thigh muscle. The egg albumen width was significantly lower in cross 5 and 6. The albumen height, albumen weight and yolk width were significantly higher in cross 7 than other crosses. The egg yolk height was found significantly higher in cross 5 and 6 and egg yolk weight was significantly higher in cross 8 and lower in cross 5 and 6 in present findings. Lower blood glucose and total cholesterol levels found in cross 5 and 6. Low triglyceride levels and LDL values were found in cross 5, 6, 7 and 8 in comparison to other crosses. Higher protein and globulin values were observed in cross 1, whereas, lower albumin values were found in cross 1 and 2 than other crosses. Higher hemoglobin values were found in cross 5 and lower packed cell volume was observed in cross 1 in comparison to other crosses.Body weight and conformations traits viz. shank length, keel length and breast angle (8 and 20 weeks of age) had medium to high heritability estimates for males and females in different crosses.The age at first egg and egg number had low to high heritable estimates. Heritability estimates were medium to high for egg weight at 35 weeks of age in different crosses and ranged from 0.21 ±0.11 to 0.41 ±0.37. At genetic and phenotypic level there existed low to high positive correlation among the body weights in males for all crosses. The genetic and phenotypic correlations among body weights in females were highly positive in cross 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8, except day old body weight with all body weights at phenotypic level were low to medium positive. There existed negative low to high association at genetic and low at phenotypic level between age at first egg and egg number in all crosses. The correlation between body weights and conformation traits were positive in all crosses for male and female at genetic and phenotypic levels except negative association in some conformation traits. The correlation between body weights and age at first egg were negative in magnitude at genetic and phenotypic level. The correlation between body weights and egg number were negative in cross C1 and C7 at genetic and phenotypic levels. The cross of Uttara with White Cornish was found better for growth performance and carcass traits than other crosses, it may be considered as meat purpose breed. Cross of Uttara with White Leghorn having higher egg production and better egg quality traits than other crosses can be suggested for egg purpose breed.
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    Impact of dietary supplementation of lemongrass and peppermint essential oils on the performance of Japanese quail
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2021-08) Srivastava, Siddhartha; Palod, Jyoti
    An experiment was conducted on 150, six-day-old Japanese quails for a period of 5 weeks, to study the impact of lemon grass and peppermint essential oils supplementation on the growth performance, haematological, certain serum biochemical and health status related parameters, carcass traits and economics of Japanese quails. Experimental Japanese quail chicks were randomly allocated into 5 different treatment groups (T0, T1, T2, T3 and T4) with three replicates of 10 Japanese quail chicks each. Different treatment groups were supplemented with essential oils T0 control (no essential oil), T1(0.1% lemongrass essential oil), T2(0.1% peppermint essential oil), T3(0.05% lemongrass + 0.05% peppermint essential oils) and T4(0.1% lemongrass + 0.1% peppermint essential oils).Growth parameters were studied at weekly intervals as well as for different periods viz. Starter (I-II week), Finisher (III-V week) and Overall period (I-V week). At the end of feeding trial on 35th day, two Japanese quails from each replicate (6 Japanese quails /treatment) were randomly sacrificed for study of carcass yield, yield of cut up parts, organ weights and processing losses. At that time representative blood samples were also collected for haemato-biochemical parameters. Results of experiment indicated that inclusion of lemon grass and peppermint essential oils increased body weight gain, reduced feed intake, improved feed conversion ratio, performance index, protein efficiency ratio and production efficiency factor, with best performance during all the periods was noted in T3 group. The blood picture revealed that TEC, Hb and PCV were improved in T3group of Japanese quails while TLC increased in T2 group over control and MCV and MCH showed significant reduction in T3 group. Serum glucose was reduced in lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplemented groups with minimum in T2 group. Whereas serum total cholesterol levels were reduced in Japanese quails of all supplemented groups, except T2 with minimum in T3group. Serum triglyceride and LDL-cholesterol were reduced in lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplemented groups with minimum in T4and T3 group of Japanese quails, respectively. Serum HDL-cholesterol was increased in all lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplemented groups with maximum value was observed in T3 group of Japanese quails. Serum total protein, albumin and globulin were improved in all lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplemented groups of Japanese quails with maximum values observed in T3 group of Japanese quails. Serum uric acid, serum creatinine, total bilirubin and SGPT levels were significantly (P<0.05) reduced by lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplementation in Japanese quails. Lemongrass and peppermint essential oils at 0.05% each in combination significantly (P<0.05) improved dressed yield with and without giblets.Cut up parts in terms of thigh, breast, drumsticks and wing weights were significantly (P<0.05) improved in lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplemented groups with maximum weight observed in T3group of Japanese quails. Lemongrass and peppermint essential oils improved weights of heart, gizzard and giblets. Liver weight and processing losses were not significantly affected by lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplementation in any treatment group. Lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplementation reduced the feed cost per kg weight gain significantly (P<0.01) except T4 group. Minimum feed cost per kg weight gain was noted in Japanese quails of group supplemented with 0.05% each of lemongrass and peppermint essential oils in combination. From the results of present investigation, it can be concluded that dietary lemongrass and peppermint essential oils supplementation at 0.05% each may be advised to improve growth performance, haemato-biochemical parameters, dressed yield and yield of cut-up arts along with economical Japanese quails production. Further research may be carried out using these and other essential oils in laying Japanese quails and other species of poultry.