International Journal of Livestock Research eISSN : 2277-1964 NAAS Score -5.36 Vol 8 (08) Aug’18 Hosted@www.ijlr.org DOI 10.5455/ijlr.20171205092256 Page158 Original Research Effect of Oral Administration of Urine of Pantja Goats on the Performance of Their Kids Manish Pandey*, Dev Vrat Singh, Sunil Kumar Rastogi, Brijesh Singh, Sanjay Kumar and Sanjay Kumar Singh GBPUA&T, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarakhand, INDIA *Corresponding author: manish1110222@gmail.com Rec. Date: Dec 05, 2017 09:22 Accept Date: Mar 19, 2018 17:14 DOI 10.5455/ijlr.20171205092256 Abstract Pantja goats are newly recognized breed of Himalayan basin with accession no. INDIA_GOAT_2420_PANTJA_06024. An experiment, during autumn and winter seasons of 2016-17, was made to study the effect of oral administration of Pantja goat urine (10 ml, on alternate days for 30 days) on about 2 months old kids. The comparison of growth parameters (body weight, chest girth, body length), rectal temperature and immune response was made between urine administered (6 kids, treatment group) and control group (6 kids) at 0, 15, 30 and 90 day of experiment. Significant increase in body weight (P<0.05) (12.81 ± 0.26 vs. 12.18 ± 0.10 kg); chest girth (P<0.01) (56.37±0.14 vs. 55.82±0.32 cm); body length (P<0.01) (52.56 ± 0.15 vs. 51.48 ± 0.29 cm); relative body weight (P<0.05) (99.75 ± 2.49 vs. 92.01±2.21%) and relative body length (P<0.01) (39.35 ± 0.28 vs. 36.43±0.91%) of kids became evident at 90 days of experiment. The treatment group kids also showed significant (P<0.01) pronounced reaction (skin thickness) to Phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) injection (3.55 ± 0.05 vs. 2.54 ± 0.03 mm) at 12 hours, indicating that administration of urine in kids boosted their immune response. The urine administered and control group Pantja kids recorded 38.36±0.01 vs. 38.44±0.02; 38.55±0.03 vs. 38.29± 0.02 0 C; 38.60± 0.04 vs. 38.45± 0.02; 38.75± 0.02 vs. 38.78± 0.03 0 C indifferent rectal temperature at 0, 15, 30 and 90 day of experiment, indicating that urine intake was non-toxic to them. Key words: Growth, Oral Administration, Pantja Goats, Phytohaemagglutinin, Urine How to cite: Pandey, M., Singh, D. V., Rastogi, S., Singh, B., Kumar, S., & Singh, S. K. (2018). Effect of Oral Administration of Urine of Pantja Goats on the Performance of Their Kids. International Journal of Livestock Research, 8(8), 158-164. doi: 10.5455/ijlr.20171205092256 Introduction Urine as a therapy was used from ancient times and it is available to everyone free of charge. One animal produces 17 to 45 ml of urine per kilogram of body weight per day (Kaneko et al., 1997). Urine is not a toxic product and this has been scientifically proven by various workers. Majority of urine is water (95%), consists of urea (2.5%) and the remaining (2.5%) is a mixture of minerals, salt, hormones and enzymes