Abstract:
The aim of the review is to summarize the Productive and reproductive performance of different indigenous dairy cattle breeds under farmer’s management practices. Ethiopia is the home of large numbers of livestock due to having varied and extensive agro-ecological zones. From the total annual milk produced cattle milk, is the most prominent compared to other livestock species in Ethiopia. Numerous finding showed that calving interval, daily milk yield, lactation length and age at first calving are one of the major measures of productive and reproductive performance parameters for dairy cattle production. Different report indicated that productive and reproductive performances of cattle are very poor due to varied factors; the causes for low performances of dairy cattle were genetic and environmental factors like feeding, housing and health care. In Ethiopia most of (98.20%) cattle breeds are local breeds the remaining (1.8%) are hybrid and exotic breeds. Then, the genetic performances of these breeds are poor, even though they have good adaptation in harsh environmental conditions. So, training and awareness creation should be given particularly to the farmers on major management practices like feeding, housing and health care and genetic improvement strategies should planned and practiced.
