Ideal bedding management is essential for optimal health, welfare, and growth performance of dairy calves. The study was conducted in order to compare the effect different materials on Murrah buffalo calves (n=20) less than 4 months age were selected divided into four groups (5 animals/group), viz. T1: Concrete floor, T2: floor bedded with sand, T3: wheat straw T4: rubber mat. Body weight body ...

BACKGROUND In Zambia, translocation of wildlife from National Parks to private owned game ranches demands that only animals free of infectious diseases that could adversely affect the expansion of the wildlife industry should be translocated to game ranches. Sarcoptes mange (Sarcoptes scarbiei) has been involved in the reduction of wildlife populations in some species. RESULTS Sarcoptes mange...

Raising healthy calves with minimum mortality is crucial in successful dairying. The calf has essentially no immune protection at birth because maternal immunoglobulins cannot cross the placenta, and the calf's own immune system is functionally immature. Reducing health problems in calves can be achieved through feeding colostrum. The calf's acquisition of colostral immunoglobulins through abso...

Digestive parasites are a constraint on buffalo productivity. Data regarding the prevalence of parasitic diseases in buffaloes reported developed countries, but Romania, they missing. The aim this study was to evaluate internal raised households and farms from Romania. Faeces samples were collected 180 different ages (calves: 0-6 months; juveniles: 6-30 adults:> 30 months). faecal processed ...

Weaning is one of the important management practices, which mostly followed at organized dairy farms in India and abroad. Generally breeding programme buffalo focusses on milk production, however weaning can additionally boost total production farm, apart from increasing reproductive potential adults promoting scientific rearing young calves. There little information early calves its effect rep...