tailieunhanh - Survey on managemental practices of Kathiyawadi horses in four districts of Gujarat state, India

This study was undertaken to investigate managemental practices of Kathiyawadi horses in their home tract and to find the type of feeding and watering management, vaccination and deworming other management practices followed by the horse owners of unorganized horse farms in Saurashtra region of Gujarat State. The present study was carried out in Junagadh, Botad, Surendranagar and Bhavnagar districts of Gujarat State. For the present study, eight talukas of each district was selected and from each selected taluka, ten villages were selected randomly. Five respondents were selected randomly from each village. Thus, random samples of 400 horse owners were selected for the study. The data was collected through personal interview schedule. Study show that maximum () horse owners rear horses for pleasure while only per cent horse owner rear for traveling, carting and racing. Majority (85 %) of horse’s owners possessed small size followed by medium size ( %) and large size ( %) herds. Frequency of feeding as a twice in a day is being practiced by only per cent and three times a day by per cent of the owners. However, per cent of the horse owners practiced four times a day. Generally, during winters horses offered drink water 3 times a day while in summer the frequency of drinking water increased 4 times a day. Majority of horse owners () never vaccinate and deworm the horses while only per cent horse owners regularly vaccinate and deworm the horses. | Survey on managemental practices of Kathiyawadi horses in four districts of Gujarat state, India