HATSUN VILLAGE   /   ANIMAL HEALTH

To provide high quality breeding and advisory services to farmers at their village level to improve productivity of animals, reduce cost of milk production and maximize their income on a sustainable basis. For animal husbandry services we have employed 100 veterinary doctors and 174 inseminators to ensure proper health care & Artificial insemination activities.

ACTIVITIES:

• To provide input services to Farmers.
• Quality AI services for superior off spring.
• Timely services at Farmers door step.
• Farmers Training classes to improve profitability in dairy farming.
• Nationalized bank tie-up Milch Animals Loans for small farmers, for Mini Dairy development 5+5, 10+10 and Project White Gold 25 animals.
• Free Veterinary Camps, Mass Contact program, Awareness night meetings, Cattle Insurance, death claim assistance.
• Timely treatment of diseased animals, attending gynecological problems. Animal Nutrition, Feeding pattern, Health and Management.

HATSUN INPUTS:

• Animal selection and Health care
• Agriculture development
• Feed Management and productivity.
• Monitory assistance
• Assured income
• Mineral Mixture supplement
• Co ordination with Government Animal Husbandry Department to control FMD outbreak, Mass immunization, Ring vaccination for preventive measures.

SELECTION OF MILCH ANIMALS:

When the farmer plans to buy animal, selection of the correct animal becomes very important. Hatsun's staff a company the farmers and help him to select the right animal by taking into consideration the following points.

• Selection should be genetically high yield cross bred animals. Should select the animal in young age (below 4 years). The age identified is done by checking the teeth (preferably 2nd and 3rd pair's teeth).
• Animal should be between second and third lactation.
• Milking should be done 3 times - Morning, Evening and Next day Morning, before buying the animal.
• The should not be too short nor too thick preferably medium size.
• The Four quarters of udder should be even in size in rear view should be compact with abdomen and soft to touch. And prominent milk vein is preferable.
• Avoid too pendulous udder.
• Select the animal within 20 days after calving and better with female calf hoot because of female calf being used for future production.
• Cow should not be purchased from shandy, preferably from farm or farmers himself.
• Should not select the vices animal (butting, kicking, suckling, fence breaking etc.)
• Try to avoid buying pregnant animals because it may be false pregnancy like mummified fetus, pyometra, or mucometra making it difficult for us to assess the future milk yield and the animal suffer with sub clinical mastitis.

ANIMAL HEALTH CARE:

• First Aid & Treatment Services: Regular health checkup on every day, treatment to health related problems like anorexia, bloat , calf scour, Navel ill, mastitis, milk fever, horn injury, wound and other minor and major health problems.
• Deworming: Regular and proper deworming done for healthy growth of heifer calves and Milch animal
• Vaccination: Timely vaccination for foot and mouth disease and vaccination for hemorrhagic septicemia, black quarter and anthrax.
• Breeding Services: Detection of Heat symptoms, performing Artificial Insemination, treatment of gynecological problems such as failure to conceive, repeaters, Anoestrum, Pyometra, ROP, Endometritis etc.
• Mineral Mixture: trace mineral supplementation to meet requirement of minerals and vitamins for animal health and production. Supplementation of trace minerals can be carried on animal blood test values, trace minerals helps to maintain natural immunity and make animal stronger.
• Tagging and recording: To identify problems such as infertility as soon as they arrive and help to increase feed intake and decrease metabolic disorders.
• Feeding Calves: Correct and proper feeding of calves and young stocks.
• Pedigree Register: Register maintained for number of artificial insemination for consumption, calf birth.

FEED MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTIVITY:

• Feeding milch animals based on the requirement and matching the milk production (1kg concentrate for every 2.5 Liters of milk plus 1kg for maintenance allowances)
• Cost based feeding, providing required green fodder based on protein requirement.

MONITORY ASSISTANCE:

• Tie-up with various nationalized bank and private bank towards loans for buying animals at interest rate 10.5% to11.5% and 11.5% to 12.5% respectively.
• Arranging insurance for animals to protect the farmer against all variables.

MINERAL MIXTURE SUPPLEMENT:

• High quality mineral mixture supplement at affordable cost to the farmers to increase daily milk yield and fat content
• To improve re productive efficiency of milch animals leading to reduced inter calving period.
• To improve overall health condition of animals.
• To facilitate good growth of young calves, boost the immune system and help them to attain early maturity.

ASSURED INCOME:

• 100% buy back of the milk produced by the farmers.
• Attractive and assured fixed price given to the farmers.
• Prompt payment to the farmers.
• No middle man-direct farmer-company relationship.

CO ORDINATION WITH GOVERNMENT ANIMAL HUSBANDY DEPARTMENT:

• To control FMD outbreak.
• Mass Immunization.
• Ring Vaccination for Preventive Measures.
• Co ordination for Anthrax outbreak control.
• Co ordination for Diseases affected area.