Study on Nutrition-Parasite Interaction in Goats with Nemato ...

Angan Roy

• 17 juli 2012
• 9783659186318

Samenvatting:

A study was conducted on twenty indigenous goat kids allocated into five different groups. All animals were offered ad libitum rice straw and berseem hay (40:60). Group I was fed concentrate mixture (100g/d). Group II, III, IV and V were supplemented with UMMB, Med-UMMB (containing fenbendazole@0.5g/kg), tannin (5% of DM) and UMMB plus tannin (5% of DM), respectively. The animals were given trickle infection (200L3/d) of gastrointestinal nematodes (Haemonchus sp. and Cooperia sp. in the dose ratio of 9:1) for 10 consecutive days. The experiment lasted for 90 days. There was no significant difference in dry matter intake, gain in body weight and feed conversion efficiency. EPG differed significantly (P