Introduction Backyard or homestead poultry farming is common among rural and landless families in India and is a lucrative source of supplementary income. It involves low investment and yields high economic returns, and can be easily managed by women, children and the elderly. Meat and eggs from such birds are inexpensive and rich source of protein and energy for poor households. Backyard poultry farming is characterized by an indigenous night shelter system, scavenging, natural hatching of … Continue Reading →
Which type of milk is better? A1 or A2?
Milk is the highly evolved secretion of mammary glands and is the most perfect food for infants. Milk produced by dairy animals has been regarded as nature’s perfect food, providing source of nutrients including high quality proteins, carbohydrates and selected micronutrients. In Australia, New Zealand, USA and other developed countries, people mostly consume A2 milk, since it is harmless whereas A1 milk is considered to be harmful for health. Although the research is still underway and concrete … Continue Reading →
Plant Toxicity and its Treatment in Ruminants
Abrus precatorius (Rati/Gunj/Rosary beans) Toxic Principle: Abrin→ Inactivates Protein synthesis. Clinical signs: GI dysfunction, salivation, colic, bloody diarrhea, muscular twitching. Nervous signs in later stages followed by death within 1-10 days. PM: Splotchy Hemorrhage & Ulceration Treatment: Antidote – Anti abrin serum; emesis followed by activated charcoal; saline purgatives (MgSO4); Tannic Acid Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken Fern) Present in hilly areas, sheep and … Continue Reading →
टेपलू ने हिंदी और मराठी में डेयरी किसानों के लिए कम लागत वाला ऑनलाइन पाठ्यक्रम शुरू किया
टेपलू (www.teplu.in), पशुपालन क्षेत्र में एक अग्रणी स्टार्ट-अप ने भारत के डेयरी किसानों को समर्पित एक नवीन ऑनलाइन शिक्षा पाठ्यक्रम शुरू किया है। टेपलू लर्निंग प्राइवेट लिमिटेड ने आज तीन अलग-अलग भाषाओं- हिंदी, मराठी और अंग्रेजी में वैज्ञानिक डेयरी फार्मिंग पर आधारित बहुभाषी ऑनलाइन वीडियो पाठ्यक्रम के शुभारंभ की घोषणा की। इन किफायती पाठ्यक्रमो का लक्ष्य सभी स्तर के डेयरी किसानों का समर्थन करना है। ऑनलाइन पाठ्यक्रम डेयरी फार्म को लाभदायक बनाने में जाने वाली सभी वैज्ञानिक विधियों को सिखाते … Continue Reading →
Teplu launches low-cost online course for dairy farmers in Hindi & Marathi
Teplu.in, a leading start-up in the animal husbandry space has launched an innovative online education course dedicated to India’s dairy farmers. Teplu Learning Private Limited today announced the launch of the multilingual video based online course on scientific dairy farming in three different languages – Hindi, Marathi & English. The affordable courses aim to support the dairy farmers of all levels. The online courses teach a step by step process of all the scientific methodologies … Continue Reading →
Treatment of common diseases of sheep and goat
Bacterial Diseases Enterotoxemia (pulpy kidney disease) Signs: Circling, staggering, falling, recumbency, convulsions, sudden death PM lesion: Soft pulpy kidneys Treatment: Not effective but oral and parentral antibiotics may be tried Control: Vaccination; generally annually, 1 month prior to breeding/lambing. Lamb at 10 days of age if both parents aren’t vaccinated or else after 4 months of age. Anthrax Signs: Sudden body temperature rise, dyspnoea, bleeding from natural … Continue Reading →
Easy steps for clean milk production at dairy farms
What is clean milk? Clean milk is generally defined as milk drawn from the udder of healthy animals, which is collected in clean dry milking pails and free from extraneous matters like dust, dirt, flies, hay and free from pathogenic bacteria. Clean milk has a normal composition, possesses a natural milk flavor with low bacterial count and is safe for human consumption. Clean milk has longer shelf life and keeping quality, transported to longer distance, high commercial value and helps to … Continue Reading →
Eliminating Dog Mediated Rabies in India by 2030
Rabies is endemic in India!! Australia, Singapore, Bahrain, Japan and England are the five country which are free from Rabies. Japan is the first Asian country that eradicated rabies from its soil, so what about India? Will India be among those five countries which are rabies free? The answer is yes. Yes, India will also be free from rabies only if WHO, FAO and World Animal Health Organization set the goal to eradicate or eliminate rabies. Among the 60,000 fatalities worldwide due … Continue Reading →
Major Zoonotic Diseases Transmitted by Pigs
Pigs are found and raised all over the world and provide valuable products to humans, which include pork, lard, leather, glue, fertilizers, medicines, etc. Besides providing products of immeasurable worth, pigs can also transmit diseases to humans and contrariwise is also true, known as Zoonotic diseases. What is Zoonotic Disease? A Zoonotic disease is one that can spread between animals and humans. Many people interact with animals in their daily lives, both at home and away from home. … Continue Reading →
Blood Transfusion in Canines
The first transfusion history dates back in 1665 in dog India is a hub of growing elite pet owners and urbane animal lovers. Due to the absence of the established blood banks and the proper blood group repository across various cities in India, there is an absolute necessity of a need based transfusion in dogs in case of anaemia due to Haemoprotozoan infections which accounts for 31.86 per cent (Baidya et al., 2015) or suffering from a trauma. This is called transfusion trigger. Component … Continue Reading →
