Effect of Service Period, Gestation Period and Dry Period on Milk Production Traits in Kankrej Cattle

The present investigation was undertaken to study the effect of non-genetic factors, viz., service period (SP), dry period (DP) and gestation period (GP) on various milk production traits in Kankrej cattle. 1235 lactation records (2nd-7th) of 475 Kankrej cows, progeny of 75 bulls that were maintaine...

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Published inThe Indian journal of veterinary sciences and biotechnology Vol. 12; no. 2
Main Authors Pareek, Nawal Kishor, Ankuya, K. J., Patel, M. P., Rathod, B. S., Prajapati, K. B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.10.2016
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Summary:The present investigation was undertaken to study the effect of non-genetic factors, viz., service period (SP), dry period (DP) and gestation period (GP) on various milk production traits in Kankrej cattle. 1235 lactation records (2nd-7th) of 475 Kankrej cows, progeny of 75 bulls that were maintained at University Livestock Research Station, Sardarkrushinagar (Gujarat), calved during 1980-2014, were studied. The effects of service period (111.64 ± 52.55 days) and dry period (143.17±28.78 days) on total lactation milk yield (2089.45±582.38 kg),305 days milk yield (2045.66±531.92 kg) and lactation length (282.90±49.46 days) were highly significant (pis less than 0.01), while the effect of gestation period (288.86±7.14 days) was non-significant on all these production traits. Cows which took more time to conceive after parturition produced more milk with longer lactation length
ISSN:2395-1176
2395-1176
DOI:10.21887/ijvsbt.v12i2.3731