Red Sindhi
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{{Short description|Breed of cattle}}
{{Infobox cattle breed
| name = Red Sindhi
| image = Red Sindhi Bull at Pakistan.jpg
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| status = FAO (2007): no concern{{r|barb}}
| altname = {{ubl|Las Bela{{r|cabi|p=281}}|Red Karachi{{r|dad}}|Sindhi{{r|dad}}|Malir{{r|dad}}}}
| country = Indian Subcontinent (present-day Pakistan)https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Improvement_of_Livestock_Production_in_C/BRnoK4OAodsC?hl=en&gbpv=1https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/animal_husbandry/animhus_cattle%20_breed_indigenous.html
| distribution = Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
| standard =
| use = dairy
| maleweight = 530 kg{{r|dad}}
| femaleweight = 325 kg{{r|dad}}
| maleheight = 132 cm{{r|dad}}
| femaleheight = 115 cm{{r|dad}}
| skincolour = brick red
| coat = red-brown
| horn =
| subspecies = indicus
| note =
}}
The Red Sindhi is a dairy breed of zebuine cattle. It is believed to originate in western Sindh and in the Las Bela area of Balochistan in undivided Indian Subcontinenthttps://agritech.tnau.ac.in/animal_husbandry/animhus_cattle%20_breed_indigenous.html,now in Pakistan.{{r|cabi|p=281}}{{cite web|title=Red Sindhi Cattle|url=http://www.pakdairyinfo.com/redSindhi.htm|access-date=20 February 2024 |website=Pak Dairy Info}}{{Cite web |url=http://dairyknowledge.in/article/red-sindhi |title=Red Sindhi |website=Dairy Knowledge Portal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622125045/https://www.dairyknowledge.in/article/red-sindhi |archive-date=22 June 2019 |access-date=19 February 2016 |url-status=live }} It is widely kept in Pakistan, and distributed to India and Bangladesh.{{r|cabi|p=281}} Other names include Las Bela, Malir and Sindhi.{{r|cabi|p=281}}
Figures reported for milk production vary from {{val|1188|to|1675|u=kg}} in a lactation of 270 days, or some {{val|4.5|–|6|u=kg}} per day. 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. It has been crossed with Jerseys in many places, including India, the United States, Australia, Sri Lanka, etc.
Description
The Red Sindhi range in colour from a deep reddish brown to a yellowish red, but most commonly a deep red. They are distinguished from the other dairy breed of Sindh, the Tharparkar or White Sindhi, both by colour 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.{{cite web|title=Red Sindhi cattle|url=http://indiaeng.com/Kaveripakkam/12--Cow%20farming/03-Red%20Sindhi.htm|access-date=16 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216160227/http://indiaeng.com/Kaveripakkam/12--Cow%20farming/03-Red%20Sindhi.htm|archive-date=16 February 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|title=Status, characteristics and performance of Red Sindhi cattle|journal=The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences |volume=77|issue=8|url=http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/10371|access-date=19 February 2024|date=2007-08-05|last1=Ahlawat|first1=S. P. S.|last2=Upadhaya|first2=S. N.|last3=Singh|first3=P. K.|last4=Pundir|first4=R. K.}}{{cite book|first=Abdul |last=Wahid|title=Red Sindhi cattle|publisher=Manager of Publications|oclc=13224514 |location=Karachi |date=1966}} The bulls are usually of a darker colour than the cows.
Breeding
It has been crossed with include Holstein-Friesian, Brown Swiss and Danish Red. 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. It is somewhat smaller than the very similar Sahiwal and produces a little less milk per animal as a result. This has caused it to lose favour 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. The resulting cows, which are three-quarters Sahiwal and one-quarter Red Sindhi, can not be distinguished from pure Sahiwal cattle.
Red Sindhi cattle are also used for milk production in Brazil, but this race of zebu is not popular as others.{{Cite journal | url=http://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302%2861%2989703-8/abstract |doi = 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(61)89703-8|title = Production Characteristics of Jerseys and Red Sindhi-Jersey Crossbred Females|journal = Journal of Dairy Science|volume = 44|pages = 125–140|year = 1961|last1 = McDowell|first1 = R.E.|last2 = Johnson|first2 = J.C.|last3 = Fletcher|first3 = J.L.|last4 = Harvey|first4 = W.R.|doi-access = free}}
Export to Brazil
Some Red Sindhi cows were exported to the Brazil in the middle of 20th century.{{cite conference |url=https://asas.org/docs/default-source/wcgalp-posters/436_paper_8601_manuscript_880_0.pdf |title=Understanding the structure of the Brazilian Red Sindhi population using genomic information |conference=10th World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production |date=2014 |first1=J.C.C. |last1=Panetto}}
See also
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