Reasons for decrease in milk production & Ways to increase milk production
Reasons for decrease in milk production
1-Seasons ( summer, rainy)
2-Feeds
3Age and breeds(culling and crossbreeding)
4-Hygiene maintenance (utensils clean and farm yard manure maintenance)
5-Unawareness of disease and its treatment
Way to increase milk production
1-Proper
feeding
2-Temperature maintenance
3-Introducing variety of feed in daily routine
4-Proper milking
Rainy Season
→Fever FMD are the main causes of decrease in milk production during rainy season.
→low level green food will be low and the chance of infection is high.
→ unwanted inflow of mosquitoes of other parasites .
Summer Season:
→ Hyperthermia, dehydration
→feed scarcity due to water level decrease
→ Ticks influence in summer.
→due to decrease in green fodder availability lead to over intake of high fibre dry fodder which decrease the milk production .
Feed related problem .
→ Due to low economic value cause the decrease in the providing Concentrate feed by the farmers.
→ High milk production cattle may get the deficiency of minerals example -major one is calcium
→rearing of cattle without proper deworming leads decrease in the energy production from feed.
→ ketosis occurs in the pregnancy animal leads to it in decrease milk in production
Age & breeds
→ rearing of cattle without proper culling lead to decrease milk production.
→ Growing the indigenous breed will produce good SNF levels milk but amount of production will be less .
Hygiene maintenance
→ unhygienic maintenance is the major problem in now days, farmer because of rearing cattle in the urban and town where they don’t have proper place for drainage and to dispose the farmyard manure from there the tradition of ticks and diseases occurs
→unhygienic milking, utensil machine cause mastitis which decrease milk production
unawareness of common diseases & prevention
→ Signs of mastitis bloat and some other normal Condition should be known by the owner unknowledge about these may led to disease and decrease the milk production.
way increase production
1)Proper feeding
* Norm given by the government should be follow which will increase the production like Example:
Total dry matter → 1/3 concentrate
→ 2/3. Roughage
*Introducing economically easy products like urea in dry fodder & including urea molasses block in the feed These are all will increase the good quantity & quality of milk production
2)*Maintaining optimum environments like in the rainy season providing the heat condition & in Summer providing cool air flow with the help & mist, Sprinklers & using wet cotton sacks & Shade nets
* Growing shadow producing trees which provide more cooling condition which & milk production by decrease the Stress
3)*including the new variety green fodders into the farms
*introducing hybrid variety & grasses which have more
energy & protein content
Example. COFS29, co 4
Milking Precaution:
Main reason milk production down is mastitis which create great impact in milk industry.
→Cleaning & udder, utensil & hand before milking
→ washing of udder after milking with the help of KMNO4 etc .
→Make the animas Stand for min 15 mins after milking with the help of feeding Grass or fodder it gives time for close the teat canal .
* These are the ways which increase the milk production and health maintenance
