Dairy Husbandry – Page 9

Sex Sorted Semen: Challenges And Opportunities

May 14, 2020 Dr Wagh Shivaji Shrikrushna

With increase in demand for food security and greater inclination towards protein diet livestock sector gaining importance. Farmers always have a wish for producing young ones of desired sex so as to maximize productivity and to secure sustainable livelihood. The demand for livestock products like meat, milk and dairy products have increased globally; to meet this demand, utilization of modern technologies to promote sustainable production of animals assumes paramount importance. >>>

Nutritional Management of Thermal Stress in Dairy Cattle

May 13, 2020 Dr. Surej Joseph Bunglavan

Heat or thermal stress can be defined as the point where the cow cannot dissipate an adequate quantity of heat to maintain body thermal balance. Temperature stress is a phenomenon that can impart physical and economical losses to livestock production in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. >>>

Animal Welfare Practices Followed During Summer Season

May 8, 2020 Y.S. Jadoun

Animal welfare is undertaking micro animal husbandry practices on the livestock at the farm, and is directly related to health, reproduction & production of animals under comfortable as well as animal friendly environment. Animal welfare practices have a positive effect on production and reproduction performance of dairy animals. >>>

Ambassador Dairy Entrepreneur Sh. Ranjit Singh Rohlen- Successful Extension Linkage of Veterinary University

May 6, 2020 Dr. Rakesh Kumar Sharma

One of the mandates of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana is to uplift the livestock sector in the state of Punjab with latest scientific practices through education and skill training of the unemployed youth, farmers and women about profitable livestock farming viz. Dairy, Poultry, Piggery, Goatry, Fisheries etc. >>>

Road Map of Rural Development in Uttarakhand The Badri Cow Model

May 1, 2020 Prof. R.S. Chauhan

Modern agriculture witnessed the green revolution through the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and hybrid seeds of different cereals, pulses etc. in order to have sufficient food for our ever-increasing population. We are number one in the world in milk production, which is achieved through importation of exotic animals, crossbreeding with indigenous cows and buffaloes. >>>

Importance of Records in Dairy Farm and Their Maintenance

May 1, 2020 Dr. Manish Pandey

When discussion is done regarding important management practices in dairy farm, most of the time, records and their maintenance are ignored. The reasons for this could be lack of knowledge of different types of records, record maintenance and interconnection of records with effective management of overall farm operations. >>>

Early diagnosis of Subclinical mastitis (SCM) in HF cows in an organized farm

May 1, 2020 Dr. Ramesh M. Gaddi

Subclinical mastitis (SCM) is subtle and more difficult to detect as the affected cow appears healthy, the udder does not show any signs of inflammation and the milk appears normal. Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Streptococcus agalactiae (S.agalactiae) are the leading oganisms to cause infection of other cows (Bramley et al., 1996 and Riffon et al., 2001). >>>

Bovine Viral Diarrhoea- Mucosal Disease

May 1, 2020 Dr. Jasleen Kaur

Bovine viral diarrhoea is a viral disease that affects cattle worldwide causing significant economic losses in both dairy and beef cattle through its effects on production and reproduction. Disease is seen in different clinical outcomes that range from subclinical infections to the more severe presentations including abortion, infertility, and the fatal mucosal disease. >>>