Village Life with Animal Husbandry

Village Life with Animal Husbandry

A) Introduction

Life is a nature’s creation. We are the angels as created by nature. Farmer People wish to live in a peaceful way. More comfortableness in village by animals and nature is reached. The reason to speak about village is the atmosphere in it. Corporate cities give us the comfort of our entire life with developing technology. It satisfies our need more than the expected. Though speaking with cities, village is the root cause for the development of cities. Therefore this is well said in the quotes “Necessity is the mother of invention”. Here I’m going to share my views about the village life with  animals, farmers cute nature and cool atmosphere. Taking into consideration of col nature, I’m adding my views about animal husbandry and its impact.

B) Living atmosphere

The living atmosphere of the village is evergreen and echo-friendly. One of the benefit in the village is the atmosphere air well suited for relaxation. The houses are build with sufficient gap between each other ensuring the air conditioning. We can find the mixture of houses like concrete blocks, coconut leaves hut and brick houses. This is based on the farmer’s wealth and their trend to develop there by animals.

C) Animal Husbandry

Obviously farmers show their interest in growing animals to ensure their wealth by selling it periodically. It involves animal husbandry involving the goats, sheep, buffaloes, cows and hen. They grow dog as a pet animal and along with cat too. Here we can see in detail about the maintenance and growth of each animal.

i) Goats and Sheep

Usually each farmer grow goats and sheep and maintain them. Goats are easier to handle and maintain. Feeding them is also an easiest way. They give good yield to the farmers. The food habits of goats are the wastes of all vegetables. Frequent supply of water to drink along with the mixture of cattle feed, coconut burfi in proportionate amount. Green Grasses are favorite food of these goats. Farmers completing their routine work, take these goats for feeding on the road sides, areas with wealthy grass. Usually they take them during the timing of 10 am to almost 3 pm based on their satisfaction. The goats are safeguard with proper fence or tied in ropes with the stick.

Male sheep or goats are kept for some generation by breeding. A time span of six months is required for the reproduction and twice a year yield is achieved. Some goats are given with tablets to avoid scarcity of vitamins, iron strength vitamin tablets at frequent intervals of breeding. Babies of goat or sheep will be more attractive and cute with soft nature. It is grown by feeding the milk from its mother. Additional milk is feed during scarcity from mother till the babies start taking the grass. Goat gives birth to two calf and in such case no extra care is needed. They grow to certain period and sell to the mutton merchant with a good profit. This is a routine for farmers. They are happy in animal husbandry with goats than others due to easiest maintenance.

ii) Cow

Cows are treated as goddess by Hindu farmers. There are multiple brands of cow grown all over by Tamil Nadu farmers. Some of them are listed below.

1. Gir
2. Red Sindhi
3. Sahiwal
4. Hallikar
5. Amritmahal
6. Khillari
7. Kangayam
8. Bargur
9. Umblachery
10. Pulikulam
11. Alambadi
12. Tharparkar
13. Hariana
14. Kankrej
15. Ongole
16. Krishna Valley
17. Deoni
18. Jersey
19. Holstein Friesian
20. Brown Swiss
21. Red Dane
22. Ayrshire
23. Guernsey
24. Jersey cross
25. Holstein Friesian cross

In the above mentioned list of breeds of cow, 1 to 3 are considered as indigenous dairy breeds of cattle, 4 to 11 are referred to as indigenous Draught breeds of cattle, 12 to 17 are called as Indigenous Dual purpose breeds of Cattle, 18 to 23 are Exotic dairy breeds of cattle and last two are Cross bred – Dairy Cattle.

In spite of the brands available, it is second easiest maintenance. They give food habits like dry grass from paddy, wheat, maize and so on at regular intervals. Like goats, cows are feed with cattle feed, coconut burfi. They give birth to calf as like human beings and the same duration. Farmers grow them by feeding milk from its mother and later on by grass. The benefit from cow is the milk. Farmers keep the milk for self-use and sell it to the vendors at affordable cost and at certain cases the male calves sell for breeding and sometimes for beef.

iii) Buffaloes

Buffalo’s husbandry by farmers are similar to cow husbandry. I would like to add few differences between them. Some of the breeds are as follows. They use it as thickest milk ever. Murrah, Surti, Jaffrabadi, Bhadawari, Nili Ravi, Mehsana, Nagpuri and Toda are the famous breeds of buffalo yielding milk. Farmers feed the same as stated in the case of cows with special care to get milk. The animal wastes use as organic fertilizer for the land of farmers. The milk is  for domestic use, sales in the form of curd, butter milk, butter for dairy and making snacks items. Finally as smooth flavored ghee is the last product from milk for making cheese and other products. These are more delicious and rich in fat.

iv) Pet animals

Dogs and cats are the most pet animals for the farmers. Dogs grow for self-protection and for goats during the feeding on the roadside. They call with some cute names. Myself grow a dog and named it as ‘Tiger’. Food habits like Pedigree and flesh items is feed for the health of dogs at regular intervals. Food with butter milk is the favorite for village side dogs. Farmers avoid using salt in serving to dogs to prevent from itches. Male dogs are grow as a passion.

However, Similar to dogs, Growing cats in houses and yards prevent the loss of property by Rats . Hens grow for the chicken and sales purpose. They are feed with the grains of rice, pearl millet, Ragi and similar family of grains.

D) Conclusion

I conclude saying that animal husbandry is a passion for farmers. Non-Vegetarians use them as food and also for wealth . Farmers growth and wealth lies in animal husbandry like cows, buffaloes, hen, goats and sheep . This also provides stress relaxation for farmers and treat them as own child.

“Enjoy the life by living”

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