Indian Journal of Animal Research
SCOPUSWeb of Science
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 43
  • Issue: 3

Effect of age at first calving on lactation milk yield and lactation length

  • Author:
  • P.L. Gatchearle, K.R. Mitkari, R.S. Mule, S.V. Baswade, S.B. Adangale
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 228 to 229

Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science, College of Agriculture, Marathwada Agriculture University, Parbhani 431 402 (M.S.) India.

Abstract

Data on 122 calvings from interse progeny of Holstein Friesian X Deoni (HF X D) breed maintained at Cattle Cross Breeding Project, Marathwada Agriculture University, Parbhani (MS) of 12 years period was utilized to study the least square analysis of variance. The effect of age at first calving on lactation milk yield (LMY) and lactation length (LL) were non-significant.

Keywords

Age, First calving, Lactation, Milk yield