Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
A Abinaya, Pasupathi Karu, R Karunakaran, Cecilia Joseph and R Eazhisai

Abstract:
The four different dietary formulations viz., Normal diet (T₁) based on AAFCO recommendations for an adult dog maintenance diet (2014), high protein high fibre diet (T₂), high protein medium fibre diet (T₃) and control diet supplemented with choline chloride (T₄), were prepared by dry extrusion. The percentage of crude protein and crude fibre of T₁, T₂, T₃ and T₄ diet were 15.74 and 4.09; 21.90 and 11.28; 21.73 and 8.23; 15.72 and 3.99, respectively. The gross energy value (kcal/kg) of normal (T₁) and choline supplemented diets (T₄) were 4448.50 and 4478.50, respectively, whereas T₃ and T₄ were 3714.50 and 3743.50, respectively. The four therapeutic diets were extruded through BTPL twin screw extruder (Model – TSE 002, Kolkatta, India) with the extruder temperature fixed at 124 ˚C and the prepared food was conveyed through pneumatic conveyer to the drier, where the product was dried at 80 ˚C for two hours. Then, the therapeutic diets were packed in LDPE bags and stored at room temperature (30.16 ± 1.26 ˚C).