A Note on the Ongole Breed of cattle

Abstract

This breed is regarded as a dual purpose one.The bulls are used for work purpose in most of the districts.north of Madras,as far as Vizagapatam and Kurnool and Bellary Districts and the cow is one of the chief sources of the Madras City each year from the breeding tract,some are returned to the tract again when dry and others are sold to the butchers.The Ongole cow yields on the average about 2500 cows of this breed are imported into Madras City each year from the breeding tract,some are returned to the tract again when dry and others are sold to the butchers.The Ongole cow yields on the average about 2500 lb.milk in lactation in Madras.The Ongole Cattle farm was opened in 1918 for the purpose of building up a pure herd of these animals which would calve regularly,produce good bulls for breeding tract.Some were disposed of at different periods for various reasons and the number was reduced to 25.During the last ten years.particulars have been worked out regarding the milk yield of the foundation stock and their progeny with the following results:--

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002057

Pages

357 - 361

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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