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Title |
Effect of combined herbal feed additives on methane, total gas production and rumen fermentation |
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Authors |
Indu Chaturvedi1*, Tapas Kumar Dutta2, Pawan Kumar Singh3, & Ashwani Sharma4 |
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Affiliation |
1,2Department of Animal Nutrition, Central Institute for Research on Goats, Makhdoom, P.O. Farah, Mathura-281 122, Uttar Pradesh, India; 2Principal Scientist and Head, National Dairy Research Institute, ERS, Kalyani-741 235, Dist.-Nadia, (West Bengal), Uttar Pradesh, India; 3Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairy science, Raja Balwant Singh College (R.B.S. College), Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India; 4Indian Science and Technology Foundation (ISTF), C-1/31, Yamuna Vihar, New Delhi-110053, India
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indu_0012@yahoo.co.in; *Corresponding author
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Article Type |
Hypothesis
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Date |
Received April 28, 2015; Accepted May 05, 2015; Published May 28, 2015
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Abstract |
The present study was to evaluate effect of herbal feed additives on methane and total gas production during the rumen fermentation for environment and animal health concern. Different parts of the five medicinal plants were selected such as leaf and small stems of Ocimum sanctum (Tulsi), roots of Curcuma longa (Haldi), fruits of Emblica officinalis (Amla), leaves of Azadirachta indica (Neem) and leaves and small stem of Clerodendrum phlomidis (Arni) for our study. Addition of different herbal additive combinations did not influence IVDMD and total gas production however methane production (mg/g of substrate DM) was significantly (P<0.05) reduced in Amla: Neem and Neem: Arni combinations. Total nitrogen significantly (P<0.01) increased in the combinations of Tulsi: Haldi and Amla: Neem. TCA–ppt-N is significantly (P<0.01) increased in Tulsi: Haldi, Haldi: Amla, Amla: Neem and Neem: Arni however NH3-N (mg/dl) significantly decreased in all treatments. We conclude that the screening of plant combinations, Amla: Neem and Neem: Arni have potential to decrease methane production and our herbal feed supplements have no side-effects on the ruminant in small amount.
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Keywords |
Herbal feed additives, Methane, Rumen fermentation, Total gas, Medicinal plants
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Citation |
Chaturvedi et al.
Bioinformation 11(5): 261-266 (2015) |
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P Kangueane
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ISSN |
0973-2063
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License |
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. |