Buffalo Breeding Management Practices Followed by Farmers of Western Haryana

The present investigation was conducted in Western Haryana. Two districts Bhiwani and Sirsa and two tehsils from each district and two villages from each tehsil were selected randomly. Twenty five buffalo keepers from each village were selected thus making a sample of 200 farmers. The study revealed that more than half (54.50%) respondents got conceived their buffalo by artificial insemination and around 80.00 percent respondents got their animals inseminated at the later stage of heat. About 41 percent of respondents detect through bellowing. Most (84.00%) of the respondents used panchyat buffalo bull for service and about 62.50 percent buffalo keepers followed pregnancy diagnosis. Only 40.50 buffaloes were bred after 2 months of calving and 53.00 percent buffaloes calved at the age of 3.5 yr.