Nutritional evaluation of detoxified honge {Pongamia glabrav&gA seed meal in broiler rabbits
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2005-12-30
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KARNATAKA VETERINARY, ANIMAL AND FISHERIES SCIENCES UNIVERSITY, BIDAR
Abstract
The higher production cost forces the livestock farmers to exploit
the use of any unconventional feedstuff as a component of livestock feed
and make animal production more economical. Incorporation of various
unconventional feeds as livestock feed requires thorough knowledge of
their maximum level of inclusion, duration of feeding and type of toxic
principles present, including their effect on animal performance and
mode of detoxification.
Various methods of detoxification like physical, chemical and
biological method were recommended to detoxify several toxic factors to
facilitate their incorporation as a source of protein and to replace protein
rich supplements to a certain extent and thus reduce the feed cost.
Several studies have been conducted with unconventional feeds in
livestock and poultry to evaluate their possibility of inclusion as an
alternate feed for sustaining optimum production and to extrapolate the
same method of feeding system to the ‘Micro-livestock’ such as rabbits.
Rabbitry is considered as an integral part of animal husbandry and
agriculture to improve the socio economic status of the rural poor
especially, landless laborers to provide food security in terms of low cost
animal protein. Realizing these facts. Government of India had included
rabbit as an important livestock species for the first time in the livestock
census 2003 (Anonymus, 2004)
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