Journal of Animal Research
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 4

Health Care Management Practices of Backyard Poultry Rearing in Dungarpur District of Rajasthan

  • Author:
  • Budharam1,*, Lokesh Gupta1, Lekhu Kumar2
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Published Online: Sep 27, 2022
  • Page Number: 707 to 710

1Department of Livestock Production Management, RCA, MPUAT, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

2Department of Livestock Production Management, SKNAU, Jobner, Rajasthan, India

*Corresponding author: Budharam; E-mail: jat.97ram@gmail.com

Online Published on 27 September, 2022.

Abstract

The current research deals with the Health care management practices of backyard poultry rearing in experiment area of Dungarpur district. The field of investigation of this study covered four tehsils of Dungarpur district i.e. Dungarpur, Bicchiwada, Aspur and Sagwara. The Study reveals that in health care management practices maximum respondents (85.43 per cent) had veterinary facilities, 75.00 per cent did not follow the vaccination, 87.78 per cent respondents provided vaccine to bird after hatching, 48.89 per cent respondent cleans poultry and equipment on alternate days, 48.33 per cent farmers said that veterinary person visited the respondent poultry house monthly, maximum farmers were weighing their birds weekly (64.44 per cent), all 180 respondents (100 per cent) used isolation distance of sick poultry birds and 49.44 per cent respondents used bamboo type poultry house in the experiment area.

• We studied Health Care Management Practices of Backyard Poultry rearing in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan.

• Maximum respondents provided vaccine to bird after hatching.

• Maximum respondents used bamboo type poultry house.

Keywords

Backyard poultry, Dungarpur, Health care, Poultry house, Vaccination