Vol. 9, Issue 6, Part C (2024)

Author(s): AA Lande, PS Sakhare, SH Mane, and SB Adangale

Abstract: By keeping in view the beneficial effect of Probiotics, Live yeast, amino acids fortified with herbs in rumen manipulation to increase animal production as indicated earlier, the experiment entitled ‘Effect of supplementation of fortified feed additives on growth performance of Indigenous Heifers’ is proposed. Twelve indigenous heifers ranging from 16 months to 23 months were selected for conducting the experiment. These were distributed into two treatment groups i.e. six heifers in each group on the basis of their age and weight. First group is considered as T₀: Basal diet as per NRC of Cattle (Control) and another group is considered as T₁: Basal diet + Fortified Feed Additives. In case of body weight records difference observed was statistically non-significant in the treatments. The final body length of T₀ group 117.00±5.63cm was less than T₁ group122.16±5.37 cm. The difference observed was non-significant in the treatments. The body heights of experimental animals were none significantly differed. The mean chest girths are142.1±3.68 cm and 146.0±3.73 cm and average increased in chest girths is 13.0 cm and 18.8 cm in treatments T₀ and T₁ respectively. The difference observed was statistically non-significant in the treatments.