author(s)
Ritu Raj, Anshu Rahal and Mohit Bharadwaj

abstract
Twenty crossbred calves were divided into 4 groups to study the effect of feeding Tinospora cordifolia and Mentha arvensis on growth and nutrient utilization for 90 days. Group I was taken as control while Group II was provided with Tinospora cordifolia @ 4% of concentrate mixture, group III with Mentha arvensis @ 4% of concentrate mixture and group IV with both Tinospora cordifolia and Mentha arvensis @ 2% of concentrate mixture each. The dry matter intake, dry matter intake/W^0.75, TDN intake/W^0.75 and DCP intake/W^0.75 in group III was significantly (P<0.05) higher than group I. The digestibility coefficient of nutrients like dry matter, organic matter, crude protein, ether extract, nitrogen free extract, crude fibre, neutral detergent fibre and acid detergent fibre were not significantly different among the groups. Body weight gain was significantly high in group IV. Tinospora cordifolia and Mentha arvensis can be fed to crossbred calves.