Effect of moringa oleifera leaf meal supplementation on the performance of murrah buffaloes under loose housing system
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Lala lajpat rai university Hisar
Abstract
The present investigation has been undertaken to study the effect of Moringa oleifera leaf
meal supplementation on performance of lactating Murrah buffalo under loose housing system.
Eighteen lactating Murrah buffaloes were assigned to three dietary treatment groups (T1, T2 and T3)
resulting in six lactating buffaloes per treatment based on parity following factorial completely
randomized design. The experiment was conducted for a period from 21 days prepartum to 5 months of
lactation to find the effect of supplementation of MOLM in following treatments, namely, T1(control)-
Feeding of lactating buffaloes with wheat straw, green fodder and concentrate mixture(on DM basis) to
meet out the nutrients requirements as per ICAR standards (2013), T2- Feeding as per ICAR standards
(2013) + 75 g MOLM/animal/day,T3- Feeding as per ICAR standards (2013) + 150 g
MOLM/animal/day. Daily DMI, body weight were found comparable and non-significantly (P<0.05)
higher in T2 and T3 treatment groups as compared to T1 (control). Significantly (P<0.05) higher milk
yield (kg), 6% FCM (kg), and lactose (%) were reported in T3 treatment group as compared to T1.
Significantly (P<0.05) higher Milk fat (%), SNF (%) and total solids (%) were reported in T2 and T3
treatment group as compared to T1 while milk protein (%) remain unchanged. Peak milk yield was
significantly (P<0.05) higher in T3 treatment groups as compared to T1 (control) but days taken to attain
peak milk yield did not differ significantly among different dietary treatments. Persistency period of
peak milk yield was significantly (P<0.05) greater in T3 treatment groups as compared to T1 (control).
FCR and FCE based on 6% FCM were significantly (P<0.05) improved in T2 and T3 treatment groups
as compared to T1 (control). Days to attain post-partum oestrous and services per conception were
reduced in T2 and T3 treatment groups as compared to T1 (control), but the difference was non significant among different dietary treatments. Service period was significantly (P<0.05) lower in T3
treatment groups as compared to T1 (control). It was reported that plasma glucose concentration
(mg/dl), cholesterol (mg/dl), calcium (mg/dl), phosphorus (mg/dl), iron (µg/dl), globulin concentration
(g/dl), SGOT (IU/L), SGPT (IU/L) and urea nitrogen concentration (mg/dl) were found comparable in
all treatment groups. Total protein concentration (g/dl) and albumin concentration (g/dl) were
significantly (P<0.05) higher in T3 group than T1 (control) group. The findings of the present study
inferred that MOLM supplementation increases production performance, improves reproduction
parameters, feed conversion efficiency, haemato-biochemical parameters and is economic in lactating
Murrah buffaloes