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CHARACTERIZATION OF LOCAL COWS OF CHHATTISGARH PLAINS

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Title CHARACTERIZATION OF LOCAL COWS OF CHHATTISGARH PLAINS
 
Creator KUMAR DAHARIYA, YASHWANT
 
Contributor SINGH, MOHAN
 
Description The present study was undertaken with an aim to establish the norms of different physical characteristics, biometric characteristics, haematomineral profile and milk composition of local non-descript cows of plain region of Chhattisgarh. The physical characteristics were observed on 600 cows from 4 districts, viz - Bilaspur, Raipur, Durg, and Janjgir Champa located in the plain region of Chhattisgarh. The qualitative physical characteristics included – coat colour, horn shape, muzzle colour, tail switch colour and ear orientation. The biometric characteristics included – body length (BL), height at wither (HT), heart girth (HG), paunch girth (PG), ear length (EL), horn length (HL), face length (FL) and tail length (TL).The most frequent coat colour was red (60.8 %) followed by white (33 %) and black (6.2%). The most frequent muzzle colour and tail switch colour was black (88.7 %) followed by brown (11.3 %). The proportion of stumpy, upward, and forward horn orientation was – 60, 33.8 and 4.7 % respectively. Horizontal ear orientation was found in 100% cows of plain region of Chhattisgarh state.The BL, HT, HG, PG, EL, HL, FL and TL were recorded as – 102.7 ± 0.26; 103.09 ± 0.24; 125.3 ± 0.62; 145.8 ± 0.66; 20.1 ± 0.08; 12.0 ± 0.23; 39.03 ± 0.09; and 67.1 ± 0.22 cm, respectively. The blood samples were collected from 25 cows from Durg district. The mean value for hemoglobin (gm%), packed cell volume (%), total erythrocytes count (mill/cu.mm), total leukocytes count (thousand/ cu.mm), neutophill(%), lymphocytes(%), monocytes(%), eosinophill(%), basophill(%), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (pg), mean corpuscular volume (fl) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (%) were recorded as 8.8 ± 0.32, 29.02 ± 1.08, 6.23 ± 0.23, 10.07 ± 1.037, 57.5 ± 2.3, 17.9 ± 1.92, 24.06 ± 1.62, 1.95 ± 0.14, 0.053±0.02, 114.4 ± 0.27, 45.2 ± 1.00 and 31.8 ± 0.311,respectively. The mean values for Ca (mg/dl), P (mg/dl), Mg (mg/dl), Co (ppm), Cu (ppm), Mn (ppm), Mo (ppm), Zn (ppm), K (mEq./lit.) and Na (mEq./lit.) were recorded as 9.8 ± 0.35, 5.34 ± 0.22, 1.64 ± 0.07, 1.5 ± 0.08, 2.6 ± 0.35, 0.50 ± 0.03, 0.39 ± 0.04, 1.28 ± 0.08, 3.58 ± 0.14 and 132.08 ± 2.07, respectively. The milk samples were collected from 100 cows from Durg district. The mean values for fat (%), protein (%), lactose (%) and SNF (%) were recorded as 3.4 ± 0.04, 3.5 ± 0.04, 5.2 ± 0.06 and 9.3 ± 0.11, respectively. This is the first documented study on the physical characteristics, performance traits and hemato-mineral profile of local cows of plain region of Chhattisgarh state.
 
Date 2016-07-19T10:37:59Z
2016-07-19T10:37:59Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/68925
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Chhattisgarh Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg (C.G.)