Anisul Hamza¹*, Lakhyajyoti Borah², Papori Talukdar², Robin Bhuyan³ and Shantanu Tamuly⁴

¹Department of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary Science, AAU, Khanapara, Assam, India
²Assistant Professor, Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary Science, AAU, Khanapara, Assam, India
³Professor, Department of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary Science, AAU, Khanapara, Assam, India
⁴Assistant Professor, Veterinary Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Science, AAU, Khanapara, Assam, India

*Corresponding Author: Anisul Hamza, Department of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary Science, AAU, Khanapara, Assam, India.

Received: April 03, 2023; Published: April 30, 2023

Abstract

An experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of feeding dry Moringa oleifera leaf meal (MOLM) on growth performance and cost of feeding. Twenty four numbers of crossbred calves of same age group were selected irrespective of sex and distributed randomly into four groups (T₀, T₁, T₂ and T₃) of six animals in each group. 84 days feeding trial was carried out. The control group (T₀) was fed with conventional feed comprising concentrate mixture, green grass (Napier) and paddy straw. The treatment groups were fed with roughage (green and dry roughage) same as control and iso-nitrogenous concentrate mixture with inclusion of 5% MOLM in T₁, 10% MOLM in T₂ and 15% MOLM in T₃.

The feed intake was not affected due inclusion of MOLM in calves diet. However, total body weight gain, average fortnightly and daily gain differed significantly among the groups and highest observed in T₃ group followed by T₂, T₁ and T₀. Significantly (P < 0.05) better FCE was observed with the increasing level of MOLM inclusion i.e. better in T₃ followed by T₂, T₁ and T₀.

The present study revealed that the dried Moringa oleifera can be included in the concentrate mixture of calves upto 15% to improve their performance and to reduce the cost of feeding.

Keywords: Moringa oleifera; Leaves; Relative Cost; Feeding; Crossbred Calves

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Citation

Citation: Anisul Hamza.,et al. “Effect of Feeding Dry Sajina (Moringa oleifera) Leaves on Growth Performance and Relative Cost of Feeding in Crossbred Calves". Acta Scientific Veterinary Sciences 5.5 (2023): 77-82.

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