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Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur

Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (renamed as Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in June, 2001) was established on 1st November, 1978.The College of Agriculture (established in May, 1966) formed the nucleus of the new farm University. It is ICAR accredited and ISO 9001:2015 certified institution. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has ranked this University at eleventh place among all farm universities of the country. The University has been given the mandate for making provision for imparting education in agriculture and other allied branches of learning, furthering the advancement of learning and prosecution of research and undertaking extension of such sciences, especially to the rural people of Himachal Pradesh. Over the years, this University has contributed significantly in transforming the farm scenario of Himachal Pradesh. It has developed human resources, varieties and technologies and transferred these to farming community enabling the State to receive the “Krishikarman award” of Govt. of India four times in row for food grain production among small states of the country. Today, the State has earned its name for hill agricultural diversification and the farming community has imposed its faith in the University.

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    EFFECT OF DIETARY REPLACEMENT OF PROTEIN WITH SEA-BUCKTHORN PRODUCTS ALONE AND IN COMBINATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF BROILER BIRDS.
    (CSKHPKV, Palampur, 2014-07-03) MUSHTAQ, MUSRAT; Sharma, V.K.
    ABSTRACT The present study was undertaken to evaluate the utility of sea-buckthorn leave, cake as well as sea-buckthorn pomace for broiler production alone and in combination. Till date sea-buckthorn products are not being used anywhere in the world for ruminant and or non-ruminant production. Hence, the present study was envisaged to see the effect of replacement of CP of conventional feed of broiler, with that of SBT leave, cake and pomace to evaluate biological performances, gain in weight, feed conversion ratio, feed intake, digestibility of different nutrients and effect on the blood serum mineral levels. An experiment was conducted to study the effect of SBT leave, cake and pomace alone and in combination on broilers production. Trial was conducted in 192 day old which were divided into 8 groups with 3 replication having 8 chicks in each. chicks which were offered conventional rations in control (T0) group and replacing 6, 20, 10, 26, 30,16 and 36 per cent CP by SBT leaves, cake and pomace, leaves+cake, cake+pomace, pomace+leaves, leaves+cake+pomace, respectively. The overall broiler performance did not significantly improved in respect of GW, FI and FCR by the inclusion of SBT leaves, cake and pomace alone or in combination in the feed. The overall GIW did not show any improvement in the broiler birds even if the feed intake was higher. The overall FCR was also not improved in broiler birds. The digestibility of all the nutrients was decreased in treatment groups where the leaves, cake and pomace was fed in combination. The inclusion of SBT leaves, cake and pomace in the feed had no any effect on dressing percentage, mortality and serum mineral levels. From the overall study it was concluded that there was no effect of the different test feeds on the broiler production by feeding the sea-buckthorn leaves, cake and pomace alone or in combination.
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    Biological evaluation of Azolla (Azolla pinnata) in broiler ration
    (CSKHPKV, Palampur, 2014-07-19) SHARMA, Kuber; Katoch, Shivani
    ABSTRACT The present study was under taken to explore the nutritive value of Azolla pinnata as a non conventional feed ingredient in poultry broiler feeding. An experiment was conducted on 150,day old chicks,which were divided into 5 main groups (1 control + 4 treatments) with 3 replicates having 10 chicks in each replicate.The ration was formulated to have test diets based on 2, 3, 4 and 5 per cent substitution with azolla as an ingredient compared to a standard formulated conventional diet in a way that the crude protein and metabolizable energy values were similar in all treatments and control. During the starter phaseresults of the growth trial revealed that the average value of gain in live body weight and feed conversion ratio of treatment T4 offered 5 per cent azolla of total feed was found to be significantly (P<0.05) higher than control group and other treatment viz. T1, T2 and T3. During the finisher phasethe average gain in live weight in treatment T1 offered test diet substituted with 2 per cent azolla exhibited significantly (P<0.05) higher gain in live weight where as treatment T4 offered test diet substituted with 5 per cent azolla numerically exhibited 4.7 per cent higher gain in live weight compared to control T0.Overall results for the experiment on growth studies exhibited similar pattern as was recorded during starter phase.There was no effect on palatability of feed with 5 per cent substitution of azolla. Results for the proximate analysis of broiler meat,coefficients of digestion of different nutrients and serum mineral analysis exhibited no significant (P<0.05) difference.Economics of broiler production by substitution of 5 per cent azolla in broiler feed exhibited highest gain compared to control group T0 offered conventional feed. It was concluded that azolla at 5 per cent in the feed of broiler birds exhibited significantly (P<0.05) higher live body weight and improved feed conversion ratio without affecting the palatability of the feed and can be economically incorporated in broiler ration.