Author(s):

VC Kedaree, PB Khirari and SM Jadhav

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<0.05) in T₂ in comparison with T₃. However, it is at par with T₁. Treatment T₁ found to be at par with T₂ and T₃. The average digestibility coefficients of DM in T₂ (56.24 ± 0.13%) was significantly higher (P<0.05) than in T₃ (52.94 ± 0.50%) and treatment T₁ (52.16 ± 0.42%).The nutritive value in respect to DCP and TDN varied significantly (P<0.05). It was significantly higher (P<0.05) in T₂ than in treatment T₃ and followed by treatment T₁. It may be concluded that incorporation of Bhend leaves and paddy straw in 30:70 proportion to growing kids significantly improved the performance of kids in respect to body weight gain, dry matter intake, digestibility coefficient, nutritive value and feed conversion ratio.

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