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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was conducted to determine the milk composition and to observe the effect of parity, stages of lactation, season and management on milk constituent traits of Kosali cow of Chhattisgarh. This study was conducted from January 2014 to July 2014 with 450 milk samples from 76 Kosali cows. The overall mean obtained for fat, solid not fat, total solids, protein and lactose percentage were 4.385±0.095%, 8.229±0.037%, 12.614±0.107%, 2.975±0.013 %, and 4.469 ± 0.021%, respectively. In the present study it was found that effect of parity was significantly affected all the major milk constituents of Kosali cow, beside this different stages of lactation also significantly altered the milk protein percentage (p<0.01) and lactose percentage (p<0.05). In the present investigation, season had significantly (p<0.01) affected all the major milk constituents of kosali cow except total solids. The effect of management was found significant (p<0.01) on milk fat and total solid percentage only.