EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTATION OF CHELATED MINERAL MIXTURE TO ANOESTRUS AND REPEAT BREEDER BUFFALOES IN TRIBAL AREAS OF DAHOD DISTRICT
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2019
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ANIMAL NUTRITION RESEARCH DEPARTMENT COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND
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A large number of livestock in the world particularly in the tropics suffer from deficiencies or imbalances in mineral nutrition (Mc Dowell et al., 1993). Dietary deficiency of macro nutrients is well combated by commercially available feeds and hence optimum supplementation of all the micro minerals results as stimulus for ovarian rebound and initiation of ovarian activity (Markandaya et al., 2002). Deficiency of essential minerals may result in failure of the homeostasis mechanism, affecting the productive and reproductive potential of animals. Major elements like Ca and P take part in reproduction as components of many important metabolic activities involved in maintaining normal reproductive physiology. Deficiency of these elements may lead to the reproductive problems like anoestrus and repeat breeding conditions. The most devastating economic loss in dairy industry is caused due to suboptimal production and infertility. Mineral supplementation dramatically improves the condition in grazing animals from many parts of the world (Mc Dowell, 1985).