Survey on Dairy Farm Management and Infertility Problems in Small, Medium and Large Scale Dairy Farms in and Around Gondar, North West Ethiopia

Moges, Nibret

doi:10.15406/jdvar.2015.02.00054

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“…Demographic Characteristics of the Respondents 80.7% of smallholder dairy producers in a sampled dairy farm were male, whereas the remaining 19.3% were females of different educational levels, and was consistent with report which revealed most of the respondents were male (Nibret, 2015;Tefera, 2018). Regarding the educational level of respondents, 7%, 7%, 48%, and 1.8% of them were illiterate, could read and write, attended formal education, and adult education, respectively (Table 1).…”

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Dairy Farmers’ Perception on Dairy Cattle Feeds and Feeding System: Brewery By-product Utilization Practice at Kombolcha Regiopolitan City, Ethiopia

Simone,

Tiruneh,

Asres

et al. 2024

Turkish JAF Sci.Tech.

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A survey was conducted in three selected kebeles of Kombolcha Regiopolitan City in South Wollo Zone. The selected kebeles were in proximity to brewery factory, Ethiopia. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect perception data from purposively selected three kebeles and a total of 57 randomly selected dairy farmers. Data collected were analyzed with a statistical package for social sciences (Version 20) and Microsoft Excel (2010). Smallholder dairy farmers had average herd size of 10.7 and 0.08 hectare total dairy farm per household. Average daily milk yield and lactation length of dairy cows was 10.8 liter/day and 9.5 months, respectively. The majority of farmers (59.6%) reared dairy cows with 50-75% exotic blood. The most smallholder dairy farmers satisfied their feed demand from the market and had a trend of providing both dense and poor quality affordable feed ingredients. Smallholder dairy farmers gave priority to feed different kind of cattle in the order of lactating cows, calve, pregnant, heifers and dry cows and used (100%) wet brewery spent grain as a source of dairy feed. Though, there was a brewery by-product supply deficit for half of year. The majority smallholder dairy farmers delivered brewery by-product directly from the brewery factories and followed by wholesalers and retailers. The majority of smallholder dairy farmers (96.4%) stated that the brewery spent grain was fed and stored freshly using different conservation techniques, and the remaining stored in ensiled (1.8%) and dried (1.8%) forms. Smallholder dairy farmers had no brewery spent grain ensiling practice and feeding brewery yeast to dairy animals. Smallholder dairy farmers indicated that high price due to abnormal market chain and shortage of brewery spent grain supply were the major challenges to sustain dairy industry in the study area, and the majority (40.6%) claimed to get swift solutions at high cost and less accessible brewery by-product.

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Dairy Farmers’ Perception on Dairy Cattle Feeds and Feeding System: Brewery By-product Utilization Practice at Kombolcha Regiopolitan City, Ethiopia

Simone,

Tiruneh,

Asres

et al. 2024

Turkish JAF Sci.Tech.

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“…The production of dairy cows is adversely affected by clinical, and subclinical endometritis, and economic losses are attributed to delays in resumption of ovarian activity, increased number of services per conception, and reduced milk yield (LeBlanc, 2008 andCheong et al, 2011). The percentage of incidence rate of subclinical endometritis in normal parturition was 36.47% compared with 85.5% in abnormal parturition (Moges, 2015). Reduced activity of the dominant ovarian follicle was correlated with bacterial infection of the endometrium (Sheldon et al, 2002 andWilliams et al, 2007).…”

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IMPACT OF OXYTETRACYCLINE AND PROSTAGLANDIN F2α DURING PUERPERIUM PERIOD ON UTERINE RECOVERY AND POST-PARTURIENT REPRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS IN BALADI COWS

Damarany

2022

Egyptian Journal of Animal Production

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This study aims to determine the influence of oxytetracycline and prostaglandin F2α during the puerperium period, on uterine recovery and post-parturient reproductive characteristics in Baladi cows. Twenty Baladi cows were used immediately after birth and were divided into two groups of 10 cows per group. The first group (n= 10 cows) was treated with 20 ml intrauterine infusion of oxytetracycline hydrochloride solution for three consecutive days during the puerperium period and 5ml intramuscular prostaglandin F2α injection once after three hours from calving, while the second group (n= 10 cows) was used as a control group. The present findings demonstrated the interval from parturition to uterine involution in Baladi cows was significantly (P <0.05) lower, (28.4 ± 4.5, days) in treated cows compared to 45.7 ± 3.5, days in control group cows. However, the period from calving to the resumption of estrus activity postpartum was significantly (P <0.05) below, 45.2±9.1, days in treated cows compared to 68.2±6.2, days in control cows. Meanwhile, the time from calving to conceived was significantly (P <0.05) less (96.5±12.3, days) in treated cows than (155.3 ±15.2, days) in controlled cows. In addition, the conception rate from first mating was significantly (P <0.05) higher, 60% in treated cows compared to 30% in control cows. In conclusion, the current study demonstrated improvement in post-partum reproductive performance in cows which treated with oxytetracycline and prostaglandinF2αduring the puerperium period. So, the study recommends that small breeders should treat their cows during the puerperium period.

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Risk coping strategies of typical and entrepreneurial smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia

Fufa,

van der Lee,

Mengistu

2024

NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences

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Survey on Dairy Farm Management and Infertility Problems in Small, Medium and Large Scale Dairy Farms in and Around Gondar, North West Ethiopia

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Dairy Farmers’ Perception on Dairy Cattle Feeds and Feeding System: Brewery By-product Utilization Practice at Kombolcha Regiopolitan City, Ethiopia

Dairy Farmers’ Perception on Dairy Cattle Feeds and Feeding System: Brewery By-product Utilization Practice at Kombolcha Regiopolitan City, Ethiopia

IMPACT OF OXYTETRACYCLINE AND PROSTAGLANDIN F2α DURING PUERPERIUM PERIOD ON UTERINE RECOVERY AND POST-PARTURIENT REPRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS IN BALADI COWS

Risk coping strategies of typical and entrepreneurial smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia

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