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Red Sindhi cattle are also used for milk production in Brazil, but this race of zebu is not popular as others. They are distinguished from the other dairy breed of Sindh, the Tharparkar or White Sindhi, both by color and form, the Red Sindhi is smaller, rounder, with a more typical dairy form, and with short, curved horns, while the Tharparkar are taller with a shape more typical of Zebu draft breeds, and with longer, lyre shaped horns.
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The Red Sindhi range in color from a deep reddish brown to a yellowish red, but most commonly a deep red. The resulting cows, which are three-quarters Sahiwal and one-quarter Red Sindhi, can not be distinguished from pure Sahiwal cattle. This has caused it to lose favor with some commercial dairies in India and Pakistan, which have been phasing out their Red Sindhi herds by breeding to Sahiwal bulls for a few generations.
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It is somewhat smaller than the very similar Sahiwal and produces a little less milk per animal as a result. It has also been used to improve beef and dual purpose cattle in many tropical countries, as it is sufficiently meaty to produce good beef calves in such crosses and the high milk production helps give a fast growing calf which is ready for market at one year. Other breeds it has been crossed with include Holstein-Friesian, Brown Swiss and Danish Red. It has been crossed with Jerseys in many places, including India, the United States, Australia, Sri Lanka, etc. They have been used for crossbreeding with temperate (European) origin dairy breeds in many countries to combine their tropical adaptations (heat tolerance, tick resistance, disease resistance, fertility at higher temperatures, etc.) with the higher milk production found in temperate regions. The breed originated in the Sindh province of Pakistan, they are widely kept for milk production across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and other countries. The various factors that would enable a greater selection pressure to be applied for accelerating annual genetic improvement in milk yield in tropical cattle are discussed.Red Sindhi cattle are the most popular of all Zebu dairy breeds. The coefficients of variation of total milk yield and average daily milk yield too are large enough to permit rapid improvement.Įstimates of genetic changes in the herd through selection of breeding females have also been made. Such improvement appears possible in the following directions: reduction of age at first calving, shortening of calving intervals and dry periods, and increase of lactation lengths. The prevailing generation interval is about 6 years.Īnalyses of the production statistics of the herd show that sufficient variability exists in regard to most characters affecting milk production to warrant the possibility of a reasonably rapid advance in production in future years. This would involve increasing the rearing proportion to 0.33 and the average reproductive life to five lactations and keeping down mortality rates at 20%. The mechanism of population changes in the 16-year history of a large herd of Red Sindhi cattle in Ceylon indicates that there is a considerable reserve of fecundity in these animals that could be utilized to enable the population to double itself, if necessary, every 8 years.