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ANIMAL HEALTH AND BREEDING
PART I
Animal health plays an important role in harnessing the expected production potential
of dairy animals. A diseased animal cannot perform to the expected level. Timely
intervention is therefore pivotal in reducing the economic losses due to diseases.
Improvement of breeds is also the need of the hour and the farmer needs to be made
aware of various aspects of breeding to be an active participant of breed improvement
programmes. With this aim, the Part I of this booklet is divided into XIV sections which
are as under:
Section I
General observation of an animal
Section II
Buying and inducting a new animal
Section III
Care of new born calf
Section IV Diseases preventable by vaccination
Section V Other important diseases
Section VI
Tick and fly borne diseases
Section VII
Tick, Fly and worm control
Section VIII Diseases that occur after calving
Section IX Diseases that occur due to faulty feeding
Section X Mastitis and diseases of teats
Section XI
Common poisoning conditions
Section XII
Common zoonotic diseases
Section XIII Breeding and related activities
Section XIV Traditional remedies for minor ailments