Effect of dietary levels of bhend (Thespesia Populnea) leaves on the utilization of Paddy Straw in Goats

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to evaluate Bhend leaves (Thespesia populnea) and paddy straw (Oryza sativa) as a goat feed stuff. Twelve male crossbred kids were randomly divided into 3 groups with four goats in each group. Bucks of in T1 were given Bhend leaves + paddy straw in 15:85 proportions, in treatment T2 in 30:70 proportion whereas treatment T3 received in 45:55 proportion. In addition to this 200 g/day concentrates were commonly offered to all three treatments to ascertain the effect on body weight, live weight changes, dry matter intake, digestibility coefficient, nutritive value in respect to digestible crude protein, total digestible nutrients and feed conversion ratio of kids. The daily dry matter intake (g/d) was found significantly higher (P