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COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR DETERMING NUTRIENT DIGESTIBILITY IN BUFFALOES

Om Prakash*, J. Singh

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¹Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi-221 005, India

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Cite article:- Prakash* Om, Singh J. (2025). COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR DETERMING NUTRIENT DIGESTIBILITY IN BUFFALOES. Indian Journal of Animal Research. 42(2): 108-111. doi: .

ABSTRACT

Ten digestion experiments were conducted in two phases using 6 adult buffaloes (3 fistulated
male and 3 female) in each method. In each phase, five methods viz., conventional (a), lignin (b),
chromic oxide (Cr2O3) (c), nylon bag (d) and in-vitro (e) were used for the determination of feed
digestibility. In phase – I, the animals were fed concentrate mixture alongwith ad libitum feeding of
wheat bhusa and in phase – II, concentrate mixture and Lucerne green (Medicago sativa L.) were
fed alongwith ad libitum feeding of wheat bhusa. The overall digestibilities of all the feed constituents
were slightly higher by conventional method than lignin. In both the methods, the digestibility of dry
matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fibre and neutral detergent fibre were significantly (P

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