Effect of microclimatological changes on milk production in crossbred cows
Author(s): YG Patel, PM Lunagariya, SV Shah, RJ Modi and KK Sorathiya
Abstract: The climate change has major impact on animal health, production and reproduction. The climate change may vary from high or low temperature, low, high and erratic rain fall & other contributing factors like wind speed & direction, light intensity, moisture level and relative humidity. The present experiment was carried out on crossbred cows (56 cows from calving to 60 days) maintained at Livestock Research Station, College of Veterinary Science & A. H., VASREU, KU, Anand, Gujarat. In the experiment the correlation between environmental factors like wind speed, light intensity, temperature (morning and noon), relative humidity (RH) and milk yield (morning and evening) were studied. The results revealed that highly significant (P