Vol. 10, Issue 8, Part F (2025)

Author(s): Gongale TS, S Senthil Murugan, Jasmine Rani K, Biju Chacko, Muhasin Asaf VN, Leeba Chacko and Naresh M

Abstract: Eighteen matured Malabari bucks (1-3 years old) were randomly assigned to three treatment groups viz T₁, T₂ and T₃ with six bucks each, following completely randomised design. All the goats were offered Hybrid Napier (Co-3) grass ad libitum along with a basal diet (18% CP and 70% TDN) for experimental period of 90 days and ration was formulated as per ICAR (2013). T₁ group animals maintained as control fed basal diet and T₂ and T₃ groups were supplemented with 200 mg and 300 mg of L-carnitine/kg of basal diet per day, respectively. The recorded initial body weight (kg) of goats were similar (P=0.90) between treatments T₁ (37.80), T₂ (35.83) and T₃ (35.97). The final body weight (kg) of goats were 39.59 (T₁), 39.28 (T₂), and 38.19 (T₃), and did not differ significantly (P=0.92). There was numerically increased body weight gain in T₂ (3.45 kg) and T₃ (2.22 kg) compared to control group (1.79 kg). Morphometric traits such as body height, length, chest girth, body condition score, cannon bone length and cannon bone circumference were also not differed significant (p<0.05) in this experiment.

DOI: 10.22271/veterinary.2025.v10.i8f.2516