Vet varsity gets patent for dietary supplement for turkey broilers
Tribune News Service
Hisar, December 10
The Lala Lajpat Rai University of Animal and Veterinary Sciences (LUVAS) has got a patent for dietary supplement composition for turkey broilers.
Dr Vishal Sharma and Dr RK Sharma of the Department of Livestock Production Management College of Veterinary Sciences, who invented the dietary supplement composition said they had filed the invention for patent on February 12, 2013, and the Indian Patent office of the Centre has granted it on November 30, 2020.
Dr Sharma said fish meal was a commonly used feedstuff in poultry ration especially for providing sulphur containing essential amino acids like lysine and methionine. The availability of good quality fish meal is difficult to ascertain. Besides this, fish meal has high chances of rancidity.
He said they conducted an experiment from 2008 to 2011 to formulate a vegetable protein-based ration with the supplementation of inorganic sodium sulphate to replace the fish meal-based poultry ration. “The results revealed that the feed supplemented with inorganic sodium sulphate significantly improved body weight, feed conversion ratio, performance index and protein efficiency of turkey broilers as compared to fish meal containing diet.”
Also, such a diet proved more economical than fish meal supplemented diet. So, the vegetable protein-based ration for turkey broilers supplemented with inorganic sodium sulphate can be very beneficial for improving the profitability and economics of poultry farmers, he added.
