• Dr,G.MAHENDRAN

The Umblachery cattle breed is the native of the coastal districts i.e., Nagapattinam districts of Tamilnadu, India. This is a medium-sized draught cattle. The calves of this breed are red or brown in colour at birth. The red colour begins to change to grey at three to four months of age. Total grey colour is generally attained at six to eight months of age. Heifers and cows are grey in colour. In majority of cows dark grey colour is present on face, neck and pelvic regions. Bulls are grey in colour with dark grey on the hump, extremities, fore quarter and hindquarter. They have white star on the face. The switch of the tail is white or partially white in colour. The mean chest girth, body length and height at withers of bulls, bullocks and cows were 145, 118, and 112 cm; 151, 119 and 117 cm and 135, 109 and 105 cm respectively. The principal body measurements reveal that this breed of cattle is of medium size and smaller than other breeds of Tamilnadu. This breed is suitable for ploughing in marshy paddy fields of the deltaic breeding tract because of its medium size. A pair of bullocks was able to pull 2000-2200 kg over a distance of 20 km in seven hours. Pure breeding of Umblachery breed was done mostly by natural mating.

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"Economic Promotes Umblachery Cattle Characteristics and Management from coastal region Tamilnadu, India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no.f11-f17, November-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211502.pdf

"Economic Promotes Umblachery Cattle Characteristics and Management from coastal region Tamilnadu, India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no. ppf11-f17, November-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211502.pdf