Abstract

Author:
Dharmendra Chharang, Sheela Choudhary

Doi: 10.26480/mahj.01.2024.24.28

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Minerals are indispensable for all vital metabolic activities of the body. The metabolism of minerals is considered as the indices of normal health, growth, production, reproduction and overall well-being of the animal. A research was designed to appraise the impact of feeding probiotics on mineral metabolism in eighteen Asian elephants for 60 days including five days of the digestibility trial in last. Animals were randomly allocated into 3 groups with 6 animals each i.e. control with no probiotics (T1) and another two with probiotics Lactobacillus acidophilus in T2 and Saccharomyces cerevisiae in T3 groups @109 CFU/gm concentrate/ 50 kg body weight per day, orally. The results revealed that the feeding of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae could not exhibit any significant effect on mineral metabolism in elephants. However, except Mn, higher apparent absorption of Ca, P, Mg, Zn, Cu and Fe was noticed in probiotics-supplemented groups as compared to the control group.