Dairy Husbandry

Milk Hygiene

July 26, 2020 Dr. Radhika Thakur

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’. >>>

Animal Husbandry

Care and management of livestock in rainy season

July 25, 2020 Dr. Rahul

t time to prep yourself to jump into the water, and get your hand dirty in the mud pool while rowing your own tiny, paper boats over the little streams of water flowing  beside .monsoon  is a blissful season with onset of monsoon the environment is subject to fatalities like flood and in such a case, it cause severe loss to the mankin, flora and the fauna. >>>

Dairy Husbandry

Record Keeping- An Important Aspect of Dairy Farming

July 22, 2020 Dr. Gagan Bajaj

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. >>>

Animal Husbandry

A1 or A2 Milk: What Is Best and Safe for You?

July 13, 2020 Ritesh Sutaria 

With an ongoing debate about the nutritional value and effects of A1 and A2 milk, a bunch of companies has laid out some research findings and studies concluding with the harm induced by A1 milk while enumerating the benefits of A2 milk. Casein dominates a large part (80%) of the total protein content in milk. The milk is made up of several kinds of casein of which, beta casein is the most common. A1 beta casein is found in cows originating in the US, New Zealand, Australia, and Northern Europe, while A2 beta casein appears in the milk produced by traditional cows found in India and Africa. >>>

Animal Diseases

Chief causes of extended recumbency in bovines

July 6, 2020 Dr. Rakesh Kumar Sharma

Under normal circumstances, a bovine spends about 9-10 hours in standing position and 14-15 hours while resting on a comfortable floor. A completely healthy milking cow or buffalo can continuously remain in a decumbent position for 30 minutes to four hours. If she remains accumbent for longer periods or she doesn’t even make an attempt to rise, then, a serious problem could be guessed.      >>>

Dairy Husbandry

Taming the heifer at first milking

June 18, 2020 Dr. Rakesh Kumar Sharma

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. >>>