National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Sheep is an important source of livelihood for resource poor farmers in rural areas of semi-arid region of Rajasthan. Adoption of improved sheep management practices bears pivotal role to improve the livelihood in such marginalised environments. This study was carried out to assess the adoption of feeding and healthcare management practices by sheep farmers. A questionnaire survey was undertaken with 200 sheep farmers in 20 villages in Hindon and Nadoti blocks of District Karauli Rajasthan to obtain the first hand information on feeding and healthcare management practices followed by sheep farmers. The study revealed that animals were mostly grazing on community land/public range land for about 4-8 h in a day. The concentrate was offered to lactating ewes’ only@150-200g/head/day. They were not supplemented with concentrate mixture during critical stages of growth and advance pregnancy. Results further indicated that the adoption of overall scientific feeding and vaccination programme were satisfactory but practices like to control ecto and endo-parasite, naval cord disinfection, feeding mineral mixture, green fodder and treatment of sick animals by veterinary officer were poor and needs to improve a lot.
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