Vol. 10, Issue 1, Part D (2025)

Author(s): AG Dabhekar, AT Shinde, DS Chauhan, NS Pawar and KR Chavan

Abstract: An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of supplementation of paneer whey on growth performance, feed and water intake, whey intake and FCR in Srinidhi birds were selected for experiment and 200 day old Srinidhi chicks with uniform weight divided into four treatment groups T₂, T₃, T₄, T₅ and control T₁ (basal diet + plain drinking water (Control), T₂ (basal diet + ½ day drinking water + ½ day paneer whey), T₃ (basal diet + ½ day drinking water + ½ day water: paneer whey (1:1) proportion), T₄ (basal diet + alternate day only paneer whey) and T₅ (basal diet + alternate day water: paneer whey (1:1) proportion). From the study it was observed that weekly cumulative live body weight at XII week of age in treatment T₂ (2442.05) had significantly higher body weight than T₄ (2362.00 gm), T₃ (2271.13 gm), T₅ (2236.05 gm) and T₁ (2190.00 gm) and values differ significantly from each other. Treatment T₂ (350.00 gm) showed the highest weekly weight gain, followed by T₄ (329.78 gm), T₃ (310.00 gm), T₅ (301.05 gm) and T₁(291.00 gm) and weight differ significantly from each other. Cumulative feed intake at XII week of age in control T₁ (4900.83 gm) was significantly higher than treatment T₂, T₃, T₄, T₅. (Control) T₁ (1 1735.31 ml/bird) had the highest total water intake than T₅, T₃, T₄ and T₂. Treatment T₂ (1.85) demonstrated the most efficient feed conversion ratio followed by T₄ (1.95), T₃ (2.08), T₅ (2.13), and (Control) T₁ was (2.23).