Journal of Animal Feed Science and Technology

Incomplete cervical dilatation is the third most common cause of dystocia in buffaloes and typically a disorder of ruminant cervix, more common in pluriparous animals. A buffalo of five years old, with first
parity and approximately 550 kg body weight was presented at Veterinary Clinical Complex Kumarganj, Ayodhya with the history of straining since last two days, anorexia and foul smelling vaginal discharge. The case was unsuccessfully treated by a quack. During anamnesis, owner stated that animal has completed full term. Clinical examination revealed depressed animal with continuous straining. On pervaginam examination, cervix was found incompletely dilated. On trans-rectal palpation, sluggish fetal reflex was observed. Thus, the case was diagnosed as incomplete dilatation of the cervix. The animal was treated with cloprostinol sodium, valethamate bromide, estradiol valerate, betamethasone and fluid therapy. To alleviate pain and prevent secondary bacterial infection a course of antibiotic, anti-inflammatory and antihistamine was also administered for five days. Owner was also advised to drench liquid uterotone 100 ml twice a day for one week. The case was recovered uneventfully. Thus, it can be concluded that a case of incomplete cervical dilation in bovines can be managed with aforesaid therapy.

Keywords: Buffalo; Cervix; Dystocia, and Uterus.
 

Glanders and Farcy is a contagious and fatal disease of horses, donkeys and mules caused by infection with gram negative bacteria Burkholderia mallei. The pathogen causes nodules and ulceration of
mucus membrane in upper respiratory tract and lungs. A skin form also known as Farcy, which may be zoonotically importance in human beings. The disease was successfully controlled in UP state by continued sero surveillance at regular interval in each district of UP by National Research Center on Equines, Hisar with the help of veterinarian of department of animal husbandry UP and also adoption of Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899. It is rare disease in humans with cases having occurred in veterinarians and other people working closely with handling of horses and susceptible laboratory animals.

Key words: Glanders and Farcy; B mallei; Horses; Sero surveillance; Veterinarian.
 

Livestock rearing is an important component in the rural India and domestic and commercial livestock are cows, buffalo, sheep, goat, pigs, rabbits, poultry etc. Huge amount of livestock waste is mostly handled by traditional way. Waste from animal production sites can greatly affect the surrounding environment, leading to increases in greenhouse gas emissions and decreases in water and air quality. Waste management practices can also determine the health of the animals, affecting the spread of disease between animal production sites and from animals to humans. The knowledge about livestock faecal pathogens, livestock waste & environment and health concerns of livestock wastes is crucial for control and prevention of transmission of such zoonotic faecal pathogens. The rapid growth of livestock production highlights the urgent need for effective policies to regulate intensive livestock operations and support environmentally and economically sustainable approaches to handling waste.

Keywords: Livestock; Waste; Environment; Quality; Health Hazards.
 

Awareness about the good quality milk in necessary not only due to reason that a large fraction of milk produces in India is domestically consumed and it has direct relation with the health of that large milk consuming population but also to increase acceptability of Indian
milk in international market. Present study was purposively conducted in Ambedakar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. For the study 78 small holder dairy farmers were selected. During study it was found that majority of the small holder dairy farmers have medium to low level
of consciousness about the quality of good milk. There is need for increasing milk quality consciousness among the dairy farmers by educating about it.

Keywords: Small Holder Dairy Farmers; Milk Quality; Adulteration; Flavor of Milk; Color of Milk.
 

The present experiment was conducted to study the effect of dietary supplementation of sea buckthorn leaf meal (SBTLM) in colored breeder chicken and their post hatch on growth performance in different phases of 0-4, 4-8 and 0-8 weeks during summer season. Ninety colored Chabro breeder hens and eighteen viable cocks in 1:5 sex ratio were randomly distributed into three treatment groups: Control (Basal), standard breeder diet (BB) (BIS, 2007); basal+0.5% and basal+1.0% SBTLM. Thereafter, 90 chicks from each breeder groups were further subdivided into three groups each groups having three replicates of 10 birds. Control (Basal), Broiler starter till 4 weeks, broiler finisher till 8 weeks of age, (BP) (BIS 2007); basal+0.5% supplementation and basal+1.0% supplementation of SBTLM. It was observed that the average body weight gain (g) during 0-4 week and 0-8 weeks were significantly higher (P<0.05) in breeder diet groups BB+0.5% SBTLM and BB+1.0% SBTLM dietary supplemented groups compared to BB.
The weekly body weight gain of 0.5% SBTLM supplemented group during post hatch and obtained from breeders subjected to 0.5% SBTLM supplementation was significantly (P<0.01) higher during 0-4, 4-8 and 0-8 weeks of experimentation. The interaction of (breeder diet ×
post hatch diet) supplementation of sea buckthorn leaf in 4-8 weeks and 0-8 weeks average body weight gain were significantly higher (P<0.01) in (BB+0.5%SBTLM)+(BP+0.5%SBTLM) group compared to BB+BP (1469.60g vs.1277.00g). However, in breeder as well as in post hatch dietary group no significant effect on feed consumption were observed in 0-4, 4-8 and 0-8 week of experimentation. Similarly, no significant effect was observed in interaction groups at 0-8 weeks. It was also observed that the overall FCR (0-8 weeks) were significantly better (P<0.05) in both sea buckthorn leaf meal supplemented groups in breeder diet as well as in post hatch diets while interaction effect for FCR were significantly better (P<0.05) in (BB+0.5% SBTLM)+(BP+0.5% SBTLM) supplemented group as compared to control group during different phases (0-4 weeks and 4-8 weeks) of experimentation. It was also observed that supplementation of 0.5% SBTLM had synergistic effect in improving the FCR of coloured breeder birds. Results of study concluded that dietary supplementation of 0.5% SBTLM in both breeder and post hatch chicks resulted in better growth performance and FCR during the study period.

Keywords: Breeder; Chabro FCR; Post Hatch and SBTLM.