Indian Journal of Animal Nutrition
  • Year: 1999
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 3

Variability in Chemical Composition of Commercial Compound Cattle Feeds

  • Author:
  • K.V.S.N. Raju, O. Sreemannarayana, J. Rama Prasad
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 272 to 273

*Dept of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary Science, Tirupati.

Feed and Fodder Analytical Laboratory, Government Dairy Farm Campus, Visakhapatnam-530 040, India.

Online published on 29 December, 2011.

Abstract

Chemical composition of twenty five commercial compounded cattle feed samples, collected from farmers and dealers in and around Vijayawada Sown of Andhra Pradesh, indicated that the CP content of feed samples from local manufacturing units, standard companies and government organisations was 10.7, 15.6 and 16.4% and CF was 21.8,17.1 and 12.4% while total ash content was 14.8, 13.7, and 13.0%,respectively.

Keywords

Variability, Chemical composition, Compounded cattle feeds