LIVESTOCK FARM COMPLEX

About the Department

Livestock Farm Complex was established under the recent guidelines of the Veterinary Council of India. The farm existing on Khalsa College campus itself is more than a hundred years old and is modeled on the closed housing system with accompanying farmland for fodder production, feed and fodder storage facility, etc. The buildings and cattle sheds have been modernized as per requirements.

The farm currently houses forty-eight (48) cattle of breeds, Jersey and Holstein-Friesian crossbreds, Sahiwal cows as well as twenty-seven (27) buffaloes of Murrah and Nili-Ravi breeds. Besides these, thirty-four (34) sheep, forty-three (43) goats, nine (9) pigs, three (3) horses, and one hundred twenty-three (123) birds with facilities for layers, broilers, and a brooding unit.

The complex serves as a center of training and instruction in farm management operations for veterinary students, dairy and poultry farmers of the region, and field veterinarians under CEDSI-KCVAS MoU.