Vol. 11, Special Issue 10 (2022)

Author(s):
M Kishan Kumar

Abstract:
Three experimental diets, RI conventional ration (RI) (consisting of chopped jowar straw, jowar green fodder and concentrate mixture fed separately) compared with two complete diets (roughage, concentrate ratio, 40:60) in mash form (RII and RIII) were formulated using palm press fibre (20% & 15%) and chopped jowar straw (20% & 25%) as roughage source and sheanut cake (18.5% & 28%) along with locally available concentrate ingredients to study their effect on environmental fluctuations in relative humidity (R.H) and ambient temperature on rectal temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate and daily feed intake of a total of Eighteen growing graded Murrah buffaloe calves fed with conventional (RI) and complete feed (RII, RIII) were studied for 180 days. The data on environmental effect indicated that non- significant differences in rectal temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate and daily feed and DM intake in growing buffalo calves fed experimental diets RI, RII and RIII reflecting lower THI values due to low variation in micro-environmental conditions during experimental period.