Vol. 10, Issue 1, Part B (2026)

The present investigation entitled “Biometric Evaluation of Surti Buffalo Calves Under Modified Feeding Systems” was carried out from January, 2022 to April, 2022 on Surti Buffalo calves maintained at Livestock Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat. For this experiment 16 Surti Buffalo calves aged more than three months were selected. Experimental animals were divided into 2 groups of 8 calves each of comparable age, sex and body weight. T₁ group was offered conventional feed and T₂ group was offered complete feed block. While dietary treatments differed, all animals remained under uniform management conditions. Growth performance was monitored through fortnightly body weight measurements throughout the study period.

Overall body length (87.32±1.38 vs. 86.06±1.23cm), height at wither (92.78±1.05 vs. 90.05±0.92cm), thoracic girth (108.67±1.68 vs. 104.71±4.34cm), abdominal girth (122.12±2.26 vs. 119.16±1.84cm) and body weight (86.11±3.00 vs. 82.43±2.65kg) was higher in T₁ as compared to T₂ group though it was not significant.