Feeding Management Practices of Gir Cattle followed in Gujarat, India-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Feeding Management Practices of Gir Cattle followed in Gujarat, India

Published:2023-03-02 Issue:2 Volume:19 Page:40-46
ISSN:2395-1176
Container-title:Indian Journal of Veterinary Sciences & Biotechnology
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Author:

Kasondra Sahil M.,Sabapara Ghanshyam P.,Dodiya Vivek A.,Savsani Harish H.,Odedra Mulraj D.,Ahlawat Anshu R.

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to collect information on feeding management practices of Gir cattle at Junagadh district and data were ascertained from randomly selected 320 Gir cattle owners through personal interview with the help of pre-tested structured schedule from four randomly selected talukas of Junagadh district, Gujarat. Majority of Gir cattle owners (86.88%) followed stall feeding system and most of them (93.44%) cultivated green fodder crops for feeding of Gir cattle. Majority (81.56%) of the respondents fed green and dry fodder as such. Groundnut gotar was the major ingredient (71.87%) used as dry fodder, 84.06 % respondents provided compound cattle feed as concentrate to their milking animals. Only 8.12 % of the Gir cattle owners followed scientific feeding of concentrates. Majority of the respondents fed concentrates to their young calves (80.94%) and heifers (87.5%) after soaking (62.81%) in water. 17.5 % of the respondents supplemented mineral mixture to their Gir cattle.

Publisher

ACS Publisher

Subject

General Medicine

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