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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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Subject: Livestock Production and Management × Author: Singh, Narendra Pratap × End date: 1998 × Start date: 1998 × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    IDENTIFICATION, PREDICTION OF AGE AND PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE IN BOVINES USING MUZZLE PRINTOMETRY TECHNIQUE
    (AAU, Anand, 1998) Singh, Narendra Pratap; Patel, Ashok M.
    The present investigation was carried out to identify and predict the age and production performance of bovines by muzzle printometry technique. A total of 783 animals of various age groups of different bovine breeds viz. crossbred, Jersey, Holstein Friesian, Gir and Kankrej cattle as well as Surti and Jaffarabadi buffaloes maintained at various Livestock Research Stations of Gujarat Agricultural University were included in the present study.A new modified technique was developed for obtaining the clear and quick muzzle print by (a) slightly modifying the curvature of metal pad, (b) applying the sweat pad for checking the sweat and (c) muzzle print on plane thick white duplicating paper.The coding of whole muzzle for identification was done on the basis of muzzle groove and muzzle characteristics. The grooved muzzles were prominent in indigenous breeds of cattle, while buffaloes had incomplete type of groove only. The elliptical shape of groove was maximum (39.8 to 58.3 percent) in all the breeds of cattle, while arrow and bell shaped grooves observed in buffaloes only. It was observed that muzzle prints of buffaloes did not have ridged beads and tubular spaces. Analysis of variance showed significant differences among the breeds for various muzzle measurements and characteristics, except ridged beads. Hence, a combined approach of classification , muzzle as a whole with muzzle measurements and characteristics in different sectors of muzzle improved the accuracy of identification.For determining the age, muzzle prints of different breeds were further classified into various age groups for muzzle measurements (basal length, upper length, central length and distance between nostrils) and characteristics (bead, clustered bead, ridged bead and total converted bead).