A Research on Calf Breeding in Cattle Farms in Igdir Province

In this research, reproductive characteristics of the cattle and calf rearing applications in cattle breeding enterprises in Igdir province were investigated. questionnaire was applied to 162 enterprise owners in the study. While a 1% of the enterprises applied colostrum feeding of calves within the first 30 minutes after the birth. remaining 96.9% of the enterprises applied within the first GO minutes after the birth. The ratios of breeders cutting the umbilical cord and providing umbilical cord care were 14.2% and 85.8%, respectively. Most common causes of calf deaths were expressed by 17.9% breeders as diarrhea and 17.9% of them as pneumonia. Also, 64.2% of the breeders reported diarrhea+pneumonia as the most common cause. Detection of estrus was carried out in all (100%) enterprises. Cows were inseminated after 5 hours from the detection of estrus in 71.3% of the enterprises, while insemination takes place after 8 hours and 12 hours in 21.2% and 7.5% of the enterprises, respectively. Cows were given to mating or insemination in 6.8% of the enterprises cows at the first estrus, while 60 days after the first estrus in :56.2% of the enterprises, and after 90 days in 34.6% and after 120 days in 2.5%. Overall. 75.3% of the breeders prefereed artificial insemination while the remaining 24.7% did not prefer artificial insemination. Number of insemination per pregnancy was determined as 1 in :32.5% of the enterprises, 1-2 in 49.4% and more than 2 in 18.1% (P >0.05).