Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Praveen Pilaniya, NB Bhati, PM Desai, AD Choudhary and Pushpa Lamba

Abstract:
The study on status of calf rearing management practices followed by the dairy owners in Gujarat was conducted in Sabarkantha districts. The data were collected randomly from selected 150 dairy animal owners through personal interview using pre-tested structured schedule in randomly selected three clusters (Ider, Prantij and Himmatnagar). The study revealed that the majority of the respondents (86.66 per cent) attended calving and 62.0 per cent of the respondents did not clean the calves soon after parturition, the result being highly significant (P<0.01). Majority (58.67 per cent) of respondents practiced cutting and disinfection of the navel cord the result being highly significant (P<0.01). All the respondents followed practice of feeding colostrum to new born calves but only 37.34 per cent of the respondents fed colostrum to new born calves within one hour of birth, the result being highly significant (P<0.01). Majority (93.33 per cent) of the respondents followed dehorning practice in calves and the results are also highly significant (P<0.01).