Volume: 49 Issue: 1
Year: 2018, Page: 67-70,
Received: July 28, 2017 Accepted: Aug. 4, 2017 Published: Jan. 1, 2018
The effect of varying dietary levels of spent rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis. L) leaf meal on haematological and serum biochemical parameters of 18 weaned Malabari kids aged between 3-4 months with average initial body weight of 6.2 kg were determined. The kids were randomly allotted to three dietary treatments with six replicates in each. The dietary treatments were: T1 (control), T2 and T3, rations containing 0, 10 and 20 per cent spent rosemary leaf meal, respectively. At the end of 90 days feeding trial, haematological and serum biochemical parameters such asblood haemoglobin, glucose, total protein, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), inorganic phosphorus and calcium were analysed . Results indicated that there was no significant difference between the kids maintained on three dietary treatments on serum biochemical parameters except glucose and AST. However the values were within the normal range reported for the species. Therefore it could be concluded that inclusion of spent rosemary leaf meal inkid starter had no adverse effects on serum biochemical parameters at 10 or 20 per cent levels.
Keywords: Rosemary leaf meal, kids, serum biochemical parameters
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