Author(s):

GG Sheikh, AM Ganai, Amir Amin sheikh, Rakshanda Bhagat, Danish Masood, A Ishfaq and Shabir Mir

Abstract: A trial of 90 days was conducted on 24 male Corriedale lambs of uniform conformation divided in four groups of six lambs each, to study the effect of feeding probiotic mix and fibrolytic enzyme mix on gut health. A complete feed was prepared containing paddy straw 50 parts and concentrate mixture 50 parts on dry matter basis as per ICAR 2013 with supplementation of probiotics mix (Saccharomyces cerevisiae + Lactobaccilus acidophillus) @ 3g/kg DM level and exogenous fibrolytic enzyme mix @ 9 g/kg, as per the invitro studies carried to arrive at optimum level of incorporation while complete feed without supplementation served as control. The average faecal E. coli and total coliform count of experiment lambs of T₁ group and in T₃ group were significantly (P<0.01) lower as compared to T₂ and control (T₀) group. Faecal pH showed significantly (P<0.01) higher values in T₁ group and in T₃ group in comparison to T₀ and T₂ groups. The faecal consistency was significantly higher in T₀ group and T₂ group than T₁ group and in T₃ group.

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