Effect of Non-Genetic Factors on Production Performance of Red Sindhi cattle Chigale P. S.1, Suryawanshi S. U.2, Gaikwad U. S.1 1Department of Animal Science and Dairy Science, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Maharashtra 2Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Dr. P.D.K.V. Akola, Maharashtra Online published on 15 December, 2016. Abstract The data on 204 lactation of 32 Red Sindhi cattle in dairy farm college of Agriculture Dhule (1991–2010) were collected to document the productive performance of Red Sindhi cattle with respective to period of calving, month of calving and lactation order. a least square model was used to determine the effect of some non genetic factor on performance traits. The total lactation milk yield, 300 days milk yield, peak milk yield, lactation length, dry period and calving interval averaged 1779.66±46.97 kg, 1750.38±32.42kg, 9.13±0.18kg, 308.49±7.05 days, 75.65±6.23 days and 384.58±9.53 days, respectively. Productive traits like total lactation milk yield, 300 days milk yield and peak milk yield were significantly affected (p<0.01) by period of calving and lactation order and other productive traits like a lactation length, dry period and calving interval were not affectedby period of calving, month of calving and lactation order. The Red Sindhi cattle most frequently calving in rainy season follow by winter and summer season. The milk yield found to be constant throughout the year. The phenotypic correlation for total location milk yield, 300 days milk yield, peak milk yield, lactation length, calving interval of Red Sindhi cattle were significantly correlated with each other. Improvement in feeding, breeding and culling practices on productivity may improve the performance of Red Sindhi cattle. Top Keywords Red Sindhi, production, performance. Top |