Abinaya, APasupathi KaruKarunakaran, R, et al.TANUVAS2023-10-102023-10-102022https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810198667The four different dietary formulations viz., Normal diet (T1) based on AAFCO recommendations for an adult dog maintenance diet (2014), high protein high fibre diet (T2), high protein medium fibre diet (T3) and control diet supplemented with choline chloride (T4), were prepared by dry extrusion. The percentage of crude protein and crude fibre of T1, T2, T3 and T4 diet were 15.74 and 4.09; 21.90 and 11.28; 21.73 and 8.23; 15.72 and 3.99, respectively. The gross energy value (kcal/kg) of normal (T1) and choline supplemented diets (T4) were 4448.50 and 4478.50, respectively, whereas T3 and T4 were 3714.50 and 3743.50, respectively. The four therapeutic diets were extruded through BTPL twin screw extruder (Model – TSE 002, Kolkatta, India) with the extruder temperature fixed at 124 ˚C and the prepared food was conveyed through pneumatic conveyer to the drier, where the product was dried at 80 ˚C for two hours. Then, the therapeutic diets were packed in LDPE bags and stored at room temperature (30.16 ± 1.26 ˚C).EnglishArticle