Definition of body condition score. The body condition scoring (BCS) is a subjective measure of the energy reserve and indirect indicator of the energy balance >>>
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, has officially announced that >>>
Udder edema is also known as caked udder, is mostly a disease of dairy cattle, is usually acute characterised by an excessive accumulation of fluid in the interstitial tissue spaces. >>>
Milk is the complete food. It contains in a balanced form of all the necessary and digestable elements for building and maintaining the human and animal body. In addition, it contains immunoglobulins which protect the newly born against a number of diseases’. >>>
Productivity is the key to growth and reproduction is backbone of animal production. Reproductive inefficiency is one of the most important causes of economic losses in animal industries and it is realized throughout the world. >>>
Record keeping is one of the utmost important part of dairy business. The success or failure of any business is highly dependent on efficiency of record keeping. Dairy farming is one of the most adoptable business of rural areas of India but the major setback of dairy farming is that people of rural area do not adopt it as business. They rear animals for their household need, not as profession. >>>
Rumen is a natural fermentative anaerobic system which should be manipulated essentially by altering the composition of rumen microflora. There is ample scope to manipulate the rumen by feeding local plants or tree leaves or agro industrial byproducts to defaunate the animals for improving its productivity. >>>
When a heifer calves for the first time, she has to experience a set of completely new maneuvers. Since she is not accustomed to these procedures, she can pose great threat to her handlers. The very first milking after calving is mostly uneventful in pluriparous animals. However, the farmer could lead himself into trouble once a heifer at his farm calves. >>>
Hoshiarpur district is located in the foothills of Shivaliks in the northeastern part of the State. It has two distinct regions: Kandi tract (Sub-mountainous area) and Non-Kandi Area (Plain area). The Kandi tract includes four under-developed blocks- Bhunga, Dasuya, Hajipur and Talwara, and three relatively developed blocks- Hoshiarpur-I, Mahalpur and Garhshankar blocks. >>>
Abstract Indian livestock sector with its vast animal genetic resources and highest milk production continues >>>
Assessing the level of heat stroke is important to prevent or reduce production losses due to heat stress or even prevent mortality in severe cases. >>>
Conformation traits play a major role in dairy cow selection. Among them, udder and teat conformation is evaluated with utmost care. Factors like milk yield, long productive life, development of young calves and disease condition like mastitis mostly depend on the condition of udder. Therefore, conformation of udder and teat should not be undermined during dairy cow selection. This topic explains in detail about conformation traits related with udder and teat. >>>
The udder is responsible for milk production and delivery of milk and milk is an important source of income for the farmers. The quantity and quality of milk produced by the animals are directly affected by various disease conditions of the teat and udder. >>>
Punjab is home to about 39.99 lakh buffaloes and 25.32 lakh cattle (2019). This is just 2.16 per cent of total population of dairy animals in India. Dairy animals in Punjab produced about 11.85 MT of milk which is 6.72 per cent of total milk produced in the country in 2017-18. >>>
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