Global Warming and Cattle
Due to industrialization in developed countries the carbon dioxide and methane level of atmosphere has increased. This gas resulted in warming because of heat coming from sun, is not reflected back in atmosphere. This is also known as green house effect. The methane is also produces rumen due to presence of methanogenic bacteria. The cows…
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Here I am discussing some popular breeds of Cows and Buffalo in India, about their habitat and special features, food requirements etc.
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How to solve labor problem in dairy farms. (Follow the following Ideas) Use milking machines Keep cows in open housing system Feed silage Give ready made pelleted cattle feed Keep bulk milk cooler and sell milk at one time Use cream separator for left over milk Feed calves with milk bottle When the calves at…
read moreFOR OPENING DAIRY WE SHOULD START WITH COW OR BUFFALO ?
If you make up your mind to start dairy the basic question is that cow or buffalo. If you say cow then what breed of cow, this is very controversial. So, I am giving below the merit and demerit of cow, exotic cow (Holstein and Jersey) and buffaloes. Desi milking cows Sahiwal, Gir, Red Sindhi,…
read moreREPEAT BREEDING IN COW AND BUFFALO
When dairy cow or buffalo after insemination does not fall pregnant or express heat after every 21 days it is repeat breeding. It is a big problem for dairy animals. With advancement of lactation length milk production is reduced and you are losing a calf. The cow should be calving once a year. So, every…
read moreUSE OF SEXED SEMEN IN DAIRY ANIMALS
POSSIBILITY AND PITFALL AND EMERGING REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES The sperm concentration in cow semen is 200 to 2000 million sperms per ml and bull gives 5 to 10 ml of semen and for artificial insemination we need 15 million spermatozoa. So from one ejaculate we can inseminate many cows. The semen can be diluted in semen…
read moreVACCINATION AND DEWORMING OF COW, BUFFALOW AND CALVES
REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING EXPENSES IN HUNDRED IS BETTER THAN EXPENDITURE IN THOUSANDS Without proper vaccination you cannot think of running successful dairy. And many dairy fail due to the negligence in vaccination. But with proper understanding you can run the dairy smoothly and avoid losses. Note the following basic point. In vaccination you inject weak…
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Mastitis is a biggest problem of the high yielding cows of the European and North American cows in India. This is because out of every three cow at least one suffers of mastitis. This decreases lactation yield by one to thousand. So it is big economic loss. In west and beef eating countries if these…
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विभिन्न डेरी चित्र गोशाला पूर्व पश्चिम में बनाई जानी चाहिए जिसे जाडे में धूप पाये तथा गर्मी न हो।
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सेक्स सीमन का उपयोग बछिया पैदा करने वाला सीमेन भारतवर्ष में गाय को बछडा पैदा करके बैल के रूप में इस्तमाल करने के लिए किया जाता था। यहा बैल कृषि माल ढौने तथा परिवहन में काम आता था परन्तु टैªक्टर तथा वकिलो0नो के उपलब्धा के कारण इसका उपयोग करीब करीब समाप्त हो चुका है। परन्तु…
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