Importance of Nutritional Management of Dairy Animals for Efficient Milk Production and Reproduction of and Better Health Maintenance

To initiate milk production

To take full advantage of increasing genetic potential, it needs to simultaneously improve the nutrition and management of herds.

To initiate milk production, the reproductive cycle of milking cyclic cows and buffaloes must start within 100 days of lactation. Although the calving of cows and buffaloes is cyclic, if it does not start naturally, the animal farmer has to take special efforts to start it on time to get more milk production in the life of the cows and buffaloes.

This cycle is divided into four stages based on the milk production stage depending on, as follows:

Early lactation of 100 days (increasing milk production in ascending order)

This cycle is divided into four stages

When dairy animals travel through such stages, there are hormonal changes in the bodies, having effect on reproduction and mammary glands development, transition of pregnant animals to lactation stage after the end of the gestation period. Also, there are changes in the metabolic processes of animals for maintaining their own health and continuing milk production. Such fluctuations in the demand/need for the nutrients required by the animal body during various biological functions may result in the fluctuations in the animal bodyweight of dairy animals due to changing daily feed intake capacity, malnutrition due to constantly changing feeding regimes, stress of the environment in which the animal is reared, infestation of parasites, etc., so that the animal farmer can maintain the productivity about quality and quantity of the milk produced in the lactation cycle.