Epidemiological Studies on Calf Diarrhea in Jammu Region

Calf diarrhea is one of the most important causes for losses to the dairy farmers. In order to access the losses, epidemiological study was conducted to study the effect of age, season, sex, parity and other factors on calf diarrhea. In the study, it was found that highest incidence of diarrhea cases was found in winter season, where as species wise more number of cases were found in buffalo calves as compared to cow calves. Birth weight wise both the incidence and mortality was higher (34.1 and 7.6 per cent, respectively) in 20–25 Kg birth weight category. Sex wise higher incidence for calf diarrhea and mortality was recorded in male calves in comparison to female calves, where as age wise both the incidence and mortality due to calf diarrhea was higher in 11–20 days age group and with dam parity wise both the incidence and mortality for calf diarrhea was recorded in calves born in first and second parity.