Milk Production of Red Chittagong cattle in farm condition in Chattogram Region

Abstract

This study was done to estimate the milk production of Red Chittagong Cattle. A total of 63 milk yielding cow were obsereved and recorded in two farms in Chittagong region in month of May and June .Lactation length , lactation yield ,daily milk yield and dry period were estimated at Hathajari Cattle breeding and dairy farm ( Farm 1 ) ( 232+/- 5 days, 385.12 +/- 9.2 kg ,1.66+/- .2283 kg ,70-75 ) and Mamata dairy farm ( Farm 2) (223+/- 4.7 days, 274.09 +/-7.4 kg ,1.23+/- .166 kg ,62-68 day) respectively . This study was compared with some previous study which was done in BAU in 1999,2001, 2006 to estimate the present condition of the above mentioned farm. In this study comparison of the production of these two farm were mentioned and tried to find out the reason of deviation