Studies on health care and milking practices adopted at buffalo farms of peri urban area of Surat city, India

Ghanshyam Prabhulal Sabapara. College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry. Department of Livestock Production Management; Vishnubhai Bhikabhai Kharadi. Vanbandhu College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry

Studies on health care and milking practices adopted at buffalo farms of peri urban area of Surat city, India

2021

Ghanshyam Prabhulal Sabapara(Junagadh Agricultural University, Gujarat (India). College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry. Department of Livestock Production Management) | Vishnubhai Bhikabhai Kharadi(Navsari Agricultural University, Gujarat (India). Vanbandhu College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry)

A field survey was undertaken to collect the health care and milking management practices opted by randomly selected 50 buffaloes farm owners in peri urban areas of Surat city and data were collected by using personal interview schedule. The present study indicated that regular vaccination and deworming practice adopted by 96 percent and 38 percent of the respondents, respectively. Only 20 percent of respondents did not adopted control of ecto-parasites practices. Only 38 percent of respondents treated their sick buffalo by veterinary officer. Majority (58 percent) of respondents did not followed grooming practice to their buffaloes. Sick buffalo isolated from healthy one was adopted by only 12 percent of respondents. All the respondents' clean udder and teats, wash their hands before milking and milked their animals at same place twice a day. Dry hand and full hand methods of milking was adopted by 24 percent and 18 percent of respondents, respectively. The use of oxytocin injection for letdown of milk after death of buffalo calf was adopted by 44 percent of respondents. Wipe the udder and teats after milking, teat dipping, testing for mastitis and teat canal sealing at the end of lactation was not practiced by any of the respondents.

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