author(s)
Dwipjyoti Mahanta, Kandarpa Boruah, Manoj Kumar Kalita, Aditya Baruah, Gautam Bordoloi, Karuna Saikia, L Sanathoi Khuman, Kanak Chandra Barman, Himangshu Baruah, Mridu Pavan Baishya and Sanjib Khargharia

abstract
The study was carried on two months old piglets reared on uniform housing and managemental condition in a private farm at Sonkurhia village, Nalbari district of Assam with an objective to cut down cost of feed per unit weight gain. First group was fed with commercially available feed which is completely replaced in second group with locally available feed ingredients. During experimental period, monthly body weight gain, blood biological analysis besides daily feed intake were recorded. The intake of feed/kg gain in body weight was found to be 3.88±0.26 and 3.95±0.43 kg respectively in standard and treated groups which did not differ significantly. There were no significant difference obserbed in the blood biochemical profile in both the groups on collecition days. The cost of feed formulated locally was approximately Rs 19.23/kg which is less than the standard commercial feed of Rs 26.00/kg attributed greatly to the cost of meat production in the study which is Rs 75.46/kg in comparision to Rs 58.08/kg in the treated group.