spread over 20 years (March 1994–2013) on 1,405 lactations belonging to first, second,
third, fourth and fifth parity along with the pedigree records of buffaloes were collected from
data maintained at NDRI, Karnal. Climatological data on dry bulb temperature (C), wet bulb
The present study was conducted to identify the critical heat stress zone (CHSZ) in a year for
energy corrected milk yield (ECMY) of Murrah buffaloes. Monthly test day fat percentage
data on 734 Murrah buffaloes spread over 20 years (March 1994 to 2013) were collected
from ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal and climatic parameters, viz. dry bulb
temperature, wet bulb temperature and relative humidity for corresponding periods were
collected from ICAR-CSSRI, Karnal. The overall least-squares means for monthly test day …