Two cases of awarding psedo-superior breeding buffalo bulls
While delivering a lecture to a batch of educated dairy farmers I showed them a picture of a man, who was 8 feet tall and weighed 350 kg, and asked...
Internal Conspiracy: BJP’s Pragya Thakur on Sterilization of Bulls In Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal: After objections were raised by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Pragya Thakur, the Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday withdrew the order of sterilization of bulls. The Animal Husbandry Department...
Evolution of Loose Housing System for Cows and Buffaloes in Maharashtra: II- Standard Parameters
In Part I of the blog, I gave a brief on how the loose concept was implemented in the Bombay Veterinary College Farms and academic studies were carried out. This...
Evolution of Loose Housing System for Cows and Buffaloes in Maharashtra: I-How it started
Indiancattle.com recently organized a competition to select few models of low-cost loose cow housing systems, restricted to the Maharashtra State, but intend to take this initiative even to other states. ...
SPECIAL ON WORLD RABIES DAY – Diagnosis, Prevention and control of Rabies in Animals
Rabies is a viral and zoonotic disease transmitted to animals and humans, commonly through bite of an animal shedding the virus in the saliva or oral secretions. The virus affects...
Low Cost, High Comfort Cow Housing Competition
Providing hygienic housing to cows to ensure their comfort and natural behavior is important. Generally, while constructing a cow or buffalo house what is required for the cow is ignored. ...
Second Vulture-Safe Veterinary Painkiller Identified! Tolfenamic Acid
In 2003, the veterinary use of diclofenac to treat cattle was discovered to be the cause of catastrophic vulture declines across South Asia. There was an urgent need to identify...
Animal Stress and Tieing of Cattle and Buffalo
Any alterations in natural physical and environmental conditions that adversely affect physiology and productive and reproductive functioning in cattle and Buffalo can be term as stress. All types of livestock...
What is the Animal Comfort Zone?
The simplest definition of animal (cattle) comfort zone is the physical conditions in the vicinity of cattle houses or dwellings where the animals perform their physiological functions both productive and...
Benefits of Loose Housing System
Loose Housing System even though is not a new phenomenon but this system did not find favor in large cities due to constraints of space. But its advantages outweigh the...