Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ALINTERI JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE SCIENCES, cilt.32, sa.1, ss.39-45, 2017 (ESCI)
This study was carried out to determine cattle breeders' farm management and calf raising practices in Narman county of Erzurum province. For this purpose, some data were obtained by conducting a face to face survey study with 208 producers in Narman county. Just 13,5 %of breeders who participated in the survey stated that they kept records of their animals regularly. 59 %of the cattle breeders indicated that they were in the need of technical assistance about cattle rearing, and 31%of them who needed assisstance got this knowledge through College of Veterinary. In most of the enterprises (43%), breeders based on all of the general signs of heat and cows in the 83%of the enterprises cows are inseminated in the first heat after birth. While 66%of the breeders used artificial insemination, 97%of breeders who used this method claimed that they were happy with this practice.It was determined that in 47%of the enterprises colostrum is not offered to new-born calves. In the enterprises that colostrum is offered to calves, they got the colostrum by sucking their dams (40%) or by milk bottles (57%). Furthermore, 84%of breeders stated that they fed their calves by colostrum less than 3 days. Milk feeding period for calves were usually 4-5 months (51%).