 | Abstract 405Effect of groundnut cake vis-a-vis cotton seed cake on rumen metabolic profile in cattle and buffalo.Bhatia,-SK; Virk,-AS; Sharda,-DP; Pradhan,-K Dep. Animal Nutrition, Haryana Agricultural Univ., Hissar-125004, India. Indian-Journal-of-DairyScience. 1982, 35: 4, 607-609; 12 ref. Adult crossbred cattle and Murrah buffaloes were given diets based on groundnut oilmeal or cottonseed oilmeal for 3 weeks. Average DM intake was 2.17 and 2.37 kg/100 kg bodyweight for cattle given groundnut oilmeal and cottonseed oilmeal, respectively. Values for buffalo were 2.00 and 1.94 kg. Average daily crude protein intake was 454 and 458 g for cattle and 466 and 431 g for buffalo. Ruminal protein nitrogen was 26.1 and 25.3 in cattle and 20.5 and 24.7 mg/100 ml in buffalo. This abstract relates to the following species: |