Volume: 56 Issue: 1
Year: 2025, Page: 141-145, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2025.56.1.141-145
Received: Oct. 1, 2024 Accepted: Dec. 12, 2024 Published: March 31, 2025
Four healthy adult dogs, aged one to four years and body weight of 11 to 13 kg, were selected for the experiment. The experiment was conducted in a switch-over design at the animal nutrition production (ANP) shed, Department of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Thrissur. The study comprises four dietary treatments that included a control diet with chicken as animal protein and T1, T2 and T3 diets where 25, 50, and 100 per cent of the chicken protein was replaced on protein basis with Ajamamsa rasayanam residue. All diets were isocaloric and isonitrogenous with 18 per cent crude protein and 3500 kcal/kg feed. Feeding was done as per NRC (2006) guidelines for adult dog maintenance. An adaptation period of one week was given before the first and between treatment diets to nullify the carryover effect while switching between diets. Subsequent diet was provided during such periods for total experimental period of four months. Weekly body condition score was recorded throughout the feeding trial. Blood samples were collected from all the animals at the start and end of each feeding trial and observed that body condition score and serum biochemical parameters like glucose, total protein, albumin, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, alkaline phosphatase, alanine transaminase and aspartate transaminase were within the normal range and similar (P>0.05) in all treatment groups. Statistical analysis of data has shown no significant difference in blood biochemical parameters and body condition scores among treatment groups suggesting that chicken meat can be replaced up to 100 per cent with Ajamamsa rasayanam residue in adult dog kept under maintenance diet.
Keywords: Switch over, body condition score, serum biochemical parameters, health, maintenance, byproduct.
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Irishikesh, K., Mathew, J. J., Ally, K., Dipu, M.T., Sahib, L., George, S. 2024. Effect of dietary incorporation of ajamamsa rasayanam residue on serum biochemical parameters and body score of adult dogs under maintenance
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