Man power utilization in management of different groups of cattle under various operations at dairy farm

The present study was undertaken to investigate the man power utilization in management of different groups of cattle at Agrim dairy farm, Jaipur, Rajasthan. The study was carried out on 140 animals in different groups of animals under various operations which are milking, washing the animals, cleaning the shed, feeding, watering and miscellaneous works. The animals were divided into six groups i.e. milch (G₁), pregnant (G₂), dry animal (G₃), calves (G₄), heifers (G₅) and bull & bullock (G₆). It was observed that the average time taken in milking operation was 14.05±0.048 min/animal/day. The average time taken in washing and cleaning operation in milch, pregnant, dry cows, calves, heifers and bull & bullock was 9.85±0.058, 7.90±0.073, 7.25±0.060, 7.10±0.066, 8.95±0.069 and 8.75±0.077 man-minutes/animal/ day, respectively. Milch cows took more time in washing and cleaning operation than other categories of animals. This might be due to clean milk production. Feeding and watering operation of milch cows also took more time over the pregnant and dry animals because of the additional work involved in soaking of concentrate mixture two times prior to feeding at the time of milking. Pregnant cows took more time for miscellaneous works because of additional care shown towards their management.