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Micronutrient status of dairy cattle in new alluvial zone of West Bengal

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Title Micronutrient status of dairy cattle in new alluvial zone of West Bengal
 
Creator DAS, P
BISWAS, S
GHOSH, T K
HALDAR, S
 
Subject Cattle, Micronutrients, Physiological stages
 
Description A survey on soil-plant-animal relationship in the new alluvial zone of West Bengal indicated that 41.67% of the surveyed farmers kept their animals on grazing and paddy straw supplementation, while 21.16% of them offered their animals with either rice bran or mustard-cake. Coqientrations of Ca, P, Cu, Zn, and Fe in the commonly used feeds and fodder were within the normal range of variation;  Mean plasma concentration of Ca, P, Cu, Zn and Fe were within the respective critical ranges in calves, heifers, milch animals as well as in dry ones; however, anestrous animals had shown somewhat lower plasma Ca, P and Cu concentrations. Higher plasma values were observed for Cu and Fe in high yielders. The study bolstered the importance of supplementation of the metabolically important mineral elements.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2014-02-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/37451
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 72, No 2 (2002)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/37451/16778
 
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