Year: 2025 | Month: August | Volume 15 | Issue 4
Effect of Probiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus sporogenes Supplementation on Growth of Marwari Kids Under Arid Condition
Pankaj Lavania
Lokesh Kumar Jain and Garbar Singh
DOI:10.30954/2277-940X.04.2025.5
Abstract:
Goat husbandry plays a vital role in providing house hold nutritional security, increased income and employment in rural
transformation. In order to assess the influence of on-farm supplementary feeding of commercial probiotic on growth in growing
kids has been evaluated. Twenty (3 months old) weaned kids of Marwari breeds were randomly divided into 2 equal groups. One
group served as control (Without supplementation) and other group as treatment group fed probiotic @ 5 g/kid/d for 90 days.
Both the group animal grazing on community pasture land. The study revealed that probiotic supplemented experimental group
achieved significantly higher (P<0.05) body weight gain and improved average daily body weight gain (ADG) by 18.55g more
than control group. The study further indicated that Diahorrea and respiratory disorders occurred less frequently in experimental
group compared to control group animals. Conducting farmer’s participatory trial on farmer’s flock can prove to be a very
effective approach for creating awareness and acceptance of technology.
Highlights
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus sporogenes are the potential probiotics.
- Awareness among farmers should be promoted for probiotics in diarrhoea cases of kids.
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