National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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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 experiment was conducted to study the relationship of Udder Conformation with milk yield, fat and solids-not-fat percent in murrah graded buffaloes under field conditions. In this 150 murrah graded buffaloes of different parities (1st to 6th parities) from different commercial farms of Guntur and Krishna districts were selected. Various parameters like Udder Length, Udder Width, Udder Depth, teat length, teat diameter related to average milk yield, fat per cent, SNF per cent was taken into consideration for the present study and a correlated study of udder morphology and the milk yield was studied. The mean±S.E of udder length, udder width and udder depth of different udder shapes ranged from 47.44±0.37 to 51.55±0.90 cm, 41.81±1.18 to 46.15±0.94 cm and 11.67±0.05 to 12.3±0.16 cm, respectively. The overall average udder length, udder width and udder depth were 48.1±0.33, 42.80±0.32 and 11.80±0.05 cm, respectively. Maximum udder length, udder width and udder depth were found in pendulous shaped udder. The overall mean(±S.E) of teat lengths of right fore, left fore, right rear, left fore were 5.42±0.02, 5.60±0.02, 5.74±0.03 and 5.96±0.02 cm, respectively. Similarly the overall mean (±S.E) of diameter of the teat in right fore, left fore, right rear, left rear were 2.48±0.01, 2.60±0.01, 2.72±0.01 and 2.87±0.02 cm, respectively. The pendulous shaped udder and funnel shaped teats yielded maximum average daily milk yield. The average daily milk yield, milk fat and SNF per cent showed positive correlation with all the udder and teat measurements. Milk yield showed high positive correlation with left rear teat diameter (0.60), udder length (0.62) and udder width (0.59). Milk fat per cent showed highest correlation with udder depth (0.48), udder width (0.44) and udder length (0.42). SNF per cent showed highest correlation with udder width (0.53), udder length (0.49) and udder depth (0.46).
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