They may be bred when they are 15 months old and weigh around pounds. Holstein females should calve for the first time between the ages of 24 and 27 months. Milk production ranges from to kg per lactation and has a fat level of 3. It produces 25 liters of milk per day on average, compared to 10 to 15 liters per day for a mixed breed H.
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Mail me your suggestions and feedback. Subscribe to our Newsletter. Both the bulls and females are. Dairy milk yield is found to be 20 liter whereas cross bred jersey, cow gives liter per day. In India this breed has acclimatized well especially in the hot and humid areas. Holsteins are large, stylish animals with color patterns of black and white or red and white.
Holstein heifers can be bred at 15 months of age, when they weigh about pounds. It is desirable to have Holstein females calve for the first time between 24 and 27 months of age. This is by far the best diary breed among exotic cattle regarding milk yield. On an average it gives 25 liter of milk per day, whereas a cross breed H.
As selection is a slow process of genetic improvement cross breeding has been taken up as the national breeding for improving milk production in India. The feeding and management of the crosses would be better, to enable them to express their production potential. In general the cross breeds were found to have higher birth weight, faster growth rate, earlier age at first calving, higher weight ; at first calving, higher lactation yield, longer lactation period shorter service period, dry period and milk production and breeding efficiency.
There are several exotic breeds being used in cross breeding programme, namely Holstein Friesian, Jersey, Brown Swiss and Reddane Holstein Friesian is found to be best suited for fluid milk supply in cities, and where higher feed inputs can be provided and where the temperature is temperate or sub-tropical.
In contrast Jersey crosses are ideal when the milk is meant for product manufacture and where feed inputs are limited and the climate is trop. The desirable characters of the exotic parent are transmitted to the progeny which the indigenous parent does not have. In India Cross-breeding and cows is done by using the exotic bulls and the progeny inherit the desirable characters of the parent like high milk yield early maturity, higher birth weigh of calves, better growth rates, better reproductive efficiency and indigenous parents characters like, heat tolerance, disease resistance ability to thrive on scanty feeding and coarse fodder etc.
In pairs the way to evolve new breeds with desirable characters. Hybrid vigour is made use of in the progency. Results are seen more quickly in characters like milk yield in the crossbred progeny. The breeding merit of cross breed animals may be slightly reduced. I mean, what kind of cow it comes from? There are six different breeds of dairy cow in our region, and each has its own unique personality. When you think of a dairy cow, you probably picture a black-and-white Holstein.
Holsteins are originally from Holland, and came to America in the s. Jersey cows are a smaller breed, with soft brown hair and great big beautiful eyes. Jersey cows are originally from Britain, and came to America in the s. Brown Swiss cows are originally from you guessed it Switzerland, and came to America in the s. Cows with names produce up to five percent more milk, according to a study published in January in the journal Anthrozoos.
It's not the name itself that makes a dairy cow more productive, said cattle behaviorist Catherine Douglas, of Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Rather, a cow with a name is likely to be more relaxed than if she were treated as just another number. Previous studies have shown that elevated stress hormones like cortisol reduce milk production by interfering with the milk-boosting hormone oxytocin, among other effects. Anxious cows are also more likely to stomp and kick, making milking more difficult.
For the current study, Douglas and colleague Peter Rowlinson wanted to investigate how a cow's relationship with people affects her behavior and productivity. Through questionnaires, the researchers surveyed more than farmers across the U.
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