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Health Care Practices of Jaffarabadi Buffalo Farmers in Rural Areas of Junagadh District of Gujarat, India

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Title Health Care Practices of Jaffarabadi Buffalo Farmers in Rural Areas of Junagadh District of Gujarat, India
 
Creator Sabapara, Ghanshyam Prabhulal
 
Description A field study was conducted in Junagadh district of Gujarat to ascertain the health care practices followed by Jaffarabadi buffalo owners and data were collected from randomly selected 320 respondents through personal interview with the help of structured interview schedule. The present study revealed that about 63.12 and 17.50 percent of the respondents regularly vaccinated their buffaloes against Foot and Mouth Disease and Haemorrhagic Septicaemia disease, respectively. None of the respondents vaccinated and tested their buffaloes against brucellosis. Only 18.13 percent of the respondents practiced deworming to their buffaloes at regular interval and followed various practices (spraying, dusting and injectable drugs) for control of ecto–parasites (81.56%) and cleaned animal sheds (76.57%). Only 22.82 percent of the respondents informed that they treated their sick buffaloes by veterinarian. All the respondents washed hind quarters of buffalo after drop of placenta. Most (83.75%) of the respondents kept diseased animals together with healthy ones and majority (70.94%) of the respondents removed the dung twice in a day from animal sheds
 
Publisher The Indian Society of Animal Production and Management
 
Date 2024-05-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAPM/article/view/148549
10.48165/ijapm.2024.40.2.11
 
Source Indian Journal of Animal Production and Management; Vol. 40 No. 2 (2024): Indian Journal of Animal Production and Management; 128-133
2350-0182
0970-1524
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAPM/article/view/148549/54587
 
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