Effect of rumen protected fat supplementation on recovery of body weight during Post-Partum period in early lactating Murrah buffaloes

Abstract

Eighteen early lactating Murrah buffaloes were randomly divided into three groups to study effect of rumen protected fat supplementation on recovery of body weight during post partum period. Control group T1 was fed with a basal diet without bypass fat and treatment groups T2 and T3 were supplemented with bypass fat @ 100g/day/animal and 150g/day/animal, respectively. Body weights of experimental animals were recorded in morning before feeding at starts of experiment and thereafter at monthly interval during experimental period. Total body weight gain during experimental period were 24.50, 25.20 and 28.33 kg in treatment groups T1, T2 and T3 respectively. The body weight were in increasing trend up to the end of experiment, higher in rumen protected fat supplementation groups but statistical analysis of data revealed the nonsignificant effect on body weight change. The effect of interaction of treatments and period were also found to be nonsignificant. So, rumen protected fat supplementation showed nonsignificant effect on body weight recovery during post partum period in lactating Murrah buffaloes.