• Temperatures are high during this month and some areas experience severe dust storms, accompanied by thunder showers.
• Heat related diseases in animals that can be seen to affect animals during this time are fever, dehydration, decrease in body salts, loss of appetite and decrease in productivity.
• Animals should be protected from heat and strong, hot and dry summer afternoon winds (loo).
• Adequate efforts should be made for fodder collection/purchase and storage for periods of shortage.
• To avoid loss of essential body salts in animals ensure that a salt mixture in appropriate quantity is mixed with the feed and water and given to animals.
• Depending upon the season, the content of the animal feed should be changed, at this time increase the quantity of wheat chaff and jowar in the feed.
• Give dairy animals a balanced feed so that their milk production capacity is enhanced.
• Deworming of animals should be carried out
• Maize, perennial grasses and other fodder species should be harvested now.
• Sheep should be sheared during this month.
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