Herd performance of crossbred cattle under organised dairy farm

Abstract

An analysis was performed to study the herd structure, herd performance and labour utilization pattern in crossbred herd maintained at Research-Cum-Development Project on Cattle (RCDP on Cattle), at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri over the period of 1990-1991 to 2019-2020. The records pertaining to production data on crossbred herd were collected for the present study. The average total cow units, heifer units and cow: heifer ratio was 203.66, 172.43 and 1:0.84 respectively. The average cow units and heifer units differs between years over the period. In crossbred herd mean of wet and herd averages were found to be 10.39 and 8.10 which varied among various years. The overall producing: non-producing ratio was 60.99:39.08 in the herd. This value differed significantly between different years over the period.