Vol. 9, Special Issue 2 (2024)

Author(s): Diwakar Verma, Kuladip Prakash Shinde and Shailesh Kumar Gupta

Abstract: One of the main obstacles to the highest possible livestock output is the inadequate nutritional quality of feed resources. In order to measure the nutritional quality of key feed resources for interventions, there is a deficiency of information regarding their chemical makeup. Assessing the Nutritional Status of Feeds and Fodders Fed to Dairy Animals in Haryana was the goal of this study. A thorough investigation conducted in the districts of Hisar, Bhiwani, and Kaithal in the state of Haryana revealed that wheat straw, Jowar, berseem, and oat were common roughage sources. Conversely, cotton seed cake, gramme churi, wheat bran, soya churi, wheat crushed, mustard cake, gramme husk, wheat grain, barley, bajra, and fenugreek seeds, as well as commercial pellet feed, were common sources of concentrates fed to dairy animals. Wheat straw had the highest DM percentage of all the roughages (92.56 %) and amongst class of concentrates in mustard cake had maximum DM percentage (93.72 %). Berseem had the highest CP % (20.12 %) and EE % (2.67 %) in roughages and in Soya churi highest CP % (42.13 %) and EE % (4.25 %) among concentrates. A wide difference in CF% was observed in roughages and ranged from 31.56 % (Wheat straw) to 42.11 % (Jowar fodder) and among concentrates CF content ranged between 1.76 % (Bajra grains) to 24.32 % (Gram churi).