UROMOL-BRAN AS A REPLACEMENT OF OIL CAKES IN THE RATIONS OF BUFFALO BULL CALVES

In the recent past, greater emphasis was bestowed to replace the expen sive ingredients such as oil cakes in the concentrate mixture of cattl e with cheaper feed resources. Several attempts were made to reduce th e feeding cost by exploring the feasibility of alternate feed resource s. Uromor, a heated product of urea and molasses (Malik et al., 1980) and solidifide ' urea molasses base blocks (Leng, 1984) were being sup plemented to basal feeds in buffalo calves. In the present study an at tempt has been made to study the effect of inclusion of uromolbran rep lacing groundnut cake in the concentrate mixtures on growth rate and p erformance of growing bull calves.