A field survey was conducted in peri urban and urban areas of Hyderabad city of Telangana state. The data was collected from hundred farmers selected from ten mandals by simple random sampling method for the study. The data on feeding and breeding management practices was collected by personal contact by using a pre-tested questionnaire. The study revealed that farmers followed colostrum feeding to new born calves, fed concentrates in soaked form before milking to the lactating animals, practiced hay making, provided extra allowance during advanced pregnancy and fed mineral supplements. Proper heat detection and insemination of the animals at right time was significantly (P<0.01) higher in peri urban areas than urban area. Majority of farmers followed combination of A.I and natural service for mating of their animals. Most of the farmers followed pregnancy diagnosis at three months in the peri urban (82.0%) area than in urban (36.0%) area. Majority of the dairy farmers bred their animals between 3-5 months after calving in urban and peri-urban areas. Overall farmers were well aware of scientific and organized herd management practices.Key words: Breeding, Dairy farming, Feeding, Periurban dairying, Urban dairying. Climatic conditions:Hyderabad experiences the semi arid tropical climatic conditions. The average annual rainfall is 810 mm. The south west monsoon contributes 74% of annual rainfall and north east monsoon contributes 14%. The temperatures reaches 45 ºC during summer season and with the onset of monsoons during June month temperature drop and varies between 26º C and 38º C.Farmer selection: From each mandal ten dairy farmers were selected by simple random sampling method, thus a total of hundred dairy farmers were selected for the study covering urban and peri urban areas of Hyderabad.