STUDY ON FEEDING PRACTICES AND MINERALS STATUS OF LACTATING BUFFALOES IN JAMNAGAR DISTRICT OF GUJARAT 2828
dc.contributor.advisor | H. H. SAVSANI | |
dc.contributor.author | BLOCH RAMEEZ KADARBHAI | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-03T06:10:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-03T06:10:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | A survey of Jamnagar district of Gujarat state was conducted during September 2018 to December 2018 for 1) survey of feeding practices followed by dairy farmers in Jamnagar district, 2) to assess proximate constituents of feeds and fodder, 3) to assess mineral status of soil, feeds/fodder and lactating buffaloes and 4) to evaluate soil-plant-animal relationship. The survey was conducted in five talukas viz. Jamnagar, Kalawad, Dhrol, Lalpur and Jam-jodhpur. Multistage random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Four villages were selected at random in each taluka, which were geographically located apart in direction and truly represented the animal husbandry practices of the taluka, for collection of samples of soil, feeds and fodder as well as blood plasma for lactating buffaloes. In each village, three respondents were selected at random. For this purpose, those respondents were considered, who owned farm, own grown feeds and fodder and lactating buffalo. The selected farmers were interviewed and the desired information was collected in the pro-forma developed for the purpose. The survey work revealed that most of the dairy animal owners/farmers reared their lactating buffaloes on stall feeding and supplementation of green maize, jinjvo, lucerne, juwar hay, groundnut straw and local mixed grasses collected from the wasteland, as the basal roughages. Generally, 16 kg green fodder and 7 dry fodder were fed daily to lactating buffaloes. Average DMI of lactating buffaloes is 16.33 ± 0.58 kg. The quantity of concentrate (kg/day) fed to lactating buffaloes ranged between 3.92 to 11.38 kg, with the overall average being 7.90 kg in lactating buffaloes. The proximate composition and certain mineral content were within the normal range. Various concentrates like cottonseed cake, cottonseed, and maize cake are supplement with/without wheat bran or maize bran. Among the macro minerals, Ca (1.13%) and Mg (0.36%) were above critical level while, P (0.0019%) was found below the critical level, and among the micro minerals, Cu (2.23 ppm) was found above the critical level and Fe (1.97 ppm) and Zn (0.64 ppm) were found below the critical level of soil in Jamnagar district. The average calcium content in concentrates was low. Cottonseed contained just around 0.11 per cent Ca. Lucerne (0.90%) had higher Ca content. Green fodder viz. maize (0.31%) and jinjvo (0.47%) were low in Ca. Ca content in dry roughage like jowar hay (0.21%) was low. However, gotars of groundnut (0.98%) was exceptionally high in Ca. The concentrate ingredients commonly fed to lactating buffaloes contained high P (0.47%). The values of P in green fodder (0.19%) and dry fodder (0.14%) were much lower than concentrates. Magnesium was rich in green fodder (0.36%), dry fodder (0.54%) as well as concentrates (0.27%) especially in groundnut straw (0.59%). The average Cu level was recorded in pasture grass (20.88 ppm), jowar hay (6.79 ppm) and groundnut straw (35.51 ppm). The green roughages contained Cu above the 10 ppm. Green maize (16.43 ppm) and cottonseed cake (16.31 ppm) contained a high level of Cu. Distribution of iron was found to be unique in the sense that it exceeds the requirement in all the feeds and fodder even straw were rich for iron. Green maize, green jinjvo and lucerne were contained 306.89, 698.22 and 531.12 ppm, respectively. Groundnut straw is quite a good source of Fe. Groundnut straw (21.85 ppm) and jowar hay (27.25 ppm) were low in Zn; however, cottonseed cake was a somewhat good source of Zn. Zinc content in green fodder varied from 13.39 to 50.92 ppm. Whole cottonseed cake (42.27 ppm) were higher in Zn as compared to roughages. Macro minerals concentration viz. Ca, Mg and P in the blood plasma of lactating buffaloes were above the critical level and among the micro minerals, Fe and Zn were found above the critical level while Cu was observed deficient in the blood plasma of lactating buffaloes. Blood plasma calcium having a significantly positive relation with dry fodder and concentrates calcium. Whereas, blood plasma copper having a highly significantly positive relation with soil copper in Jamnagar district. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810170051 | |
dc.keywords | Minerals mapping, minerals status of Gujarat, soil-plant-animal relationship | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.pages | 142p | en_US |
dc.publisher | JAU, JUNAGADH | en_US |
dc.sub | Animal Nutrition | en_US |
dc.theme | STUDY ON FEEDING PRACTICES AND MINERALS STATUS OF LACTATING BUFFALOES IN JAMNAGAR DISTRICT OF GUJARAT 2828 | en_US |
dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
dc.title | STUDY ON FEEDING PRACTICES AND MINERALS STATUS OF LACTATING BUFFALOES IN JAMNAGAR DISTRICT OF GUJARAT 2828 | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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