DAIRY RULE -2

BREED AND BREED QUALITY 

The breed 

It is extremely important to know the tastes and the practices of the market or the city you plan to launch your dairy farm in before you choose the breed. There are numerous Indian buffalo breeds like Murrah, Surti, Jaffarabadi, and popular cow breeds like Gir, Sahiwal, Red Sindhi, Tharpakar which are Indian. Western breeds like Holstein Fresian, Brown Swiss, Jersey are majorly used for meat production. Indian cow breeds produce milk containing A2 beta-casein protein which is considered to be the next best after mother ‘s milk. Indian breeds produce significantly lower quantities of milk compared to the western breeds and will govern the pricing of your product.  

The Breed Quality 

While buying the cattle, try to milk the cattle 3 times before buying. For a buffalo, average milk production should be a minimum of 12 litres and for a cow, it should be a minimum of 16-17 litres. To get a regular supply of milk, do not buy all cattle at one go, one should buy at a monthly interval of 2 months.