COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF SHADER AND NON-SHADER INDIGENOUS SHEEP UNDER MIDDLE GUJARAT AGRO CLIMATIC CONDITION DURING SUMMER SEASON
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2007
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AAU, Anand
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The present experiment was conducted to compare the performance of shader and non-shader indigenous sheep under middle Gujarat agro climatic condition during intense summer season in the month of May-June at Instructional farm, Department of Livestock Production and Management, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat. This experiment was conducted on 20 adult female farms bom, unshorn, Marwari and Patanwadi sheep of Instructional farm. Veterinary College, Anand. The experimental animals were randomly divided in to four treatment groups on the basis of body weight each of five animals and housed under covered area viz. T1: Asbestos sheet roofed house, T2: Agro-net, T3: walled open yard under the trees shade and T4 : under open sky (expose to sun). The experimental animals were maintained on ICAR Feeding Standard (1998). The experimental animals at the end of the experiment attained 29.53 ± 0.28, 28.10 ± 0.21, 27.80 ± 0.27 and 27.62 ± 0.19 kg body weights with total gain of 1.65, d.90, 1,64 and 1.14 kg under T1, T2, T3 and T4, respectively. The shader animals grew to the tune of 5.92, 3.30 and 6.26 % under T1, T2, T3, respectively as compared to their initial body weight, where as non-shader sheep (T4) grew to the tune of 4.3 % in relation to their initial body weight. There was no significant mfluence of treatments, period and interaction of T X P on body weight of experimental animals. The experimental animals under T1 (750.25 ± 08.29) and T4 (722.58 ± 09.57) consumed daily dry matter intake (g) at par but had little higher in T2 (754.52 ± 13.67) and T3 (815.02 ± 12.92), differed significantly (P<0.05) from T1, T2 & T3. The animals under tree (T3) consumed 8.6, 8.0 and 12.79 % more dry matter as compared to the animals under T1, T2 and T4. The daily dry matter intake irrespective of treatments during different experimental periods differed significantly (P<0.05). The percent dry matter intake was 2.54 ± 0.04, 2.73 ± 0.04,2.94 ± 0.04 and 2.63 ± 0.04 in T1, T2, T3 and T4, respectively differed significantly (P<0.05) with treatment while period and its interaction effect with treatment were non-significant. The dry matter intake (g) per metabolic body weight was 59.24 ± 0.86, 62.48 ± 0.97, 67.29 ± 0.91 and 60.13 ± 0.77 in T1, T2, T3 and T4, respectively differed significantly (P<0.05) by the treatments only.
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LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION, COMPARATIVE