Study on cattle calf rearing and health care practices in relationship to herd size in non tribal area of Udaipur district of Rajasthan

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Mavli and Vallabhnagar tehsils of Udaipur district of Rajasthan. The study group consisted of 160 cattle rearers, which were selected randomly, from eight villages of above two tehsils. Results revealed that 93.13 percent of the respondents did not cut naval cord of calf and 67.50 percent cattle owners disposed off placenta by deep burial. It was found that practice of deworming of calf was not adopted by 74.38 percent of the respondents. Dehorning and castration was not performed by any of the respondents. Regarding vaccination it was found that 82.50 percent of cattle owners do not vaccinate their cattle against diseases. Out of total Cattle owners study group, 78.13 percent of them left the dead body of animals outside the village as a method of disposal and 94.38 percent of the farmers studied controlled flies by smoke of waste grasses.