author(s)
AR Madkar, Triveni Dutt, Prasanta Boro and PK Bharti

abstract
Present study was conducted in 4 districts of Western Maharashtra viz. Sangli, Satara, Solapur and Kolhapur. A data were collected from individual farmer on livestock health management. A total of 600 (150 from each district) livestock’s owners out of that were 492 large animals and 108 small ruminants owners having at least one animal per farmer were randomly selected. Farmers were interviewed by a presented structured interview schedule from each district. Two tahsil were selected and from each tahsil three villages were selected and from that 25 respondents were' selected randomly belonging to different categories of farmers. Treatment of sick animals, deworming and control of ectoparasite, vaccination programme on FMD, HS, BQ and Tetanus and carcass disposal pattern at field level were found to be 68.17%, 33.17% regular, 46.83%, 58.00% and 67%, respectively. Kolhapur district is one of the unique district of Maharashtra having fertile land and high potentialities for the dairy development, availability of government hospitals and local assistant for treatment. In conclusion that the Kolhapur district farmer’s adopted better in terms of scientific health management practices followed by Sangli, Satara and Solapur districts. So, there is future scope for improving better management practices to up gradation in dairy animal production Western Maharashtra.