author(s)
Sudheer Bhagat, AK Santra, Sharad Mishra, VN Khune, Nishma Singh, OP Dinani, Sweta Banjare, Anupam Soni and Neetu Sonkar

abstract
The experiment was conducted with the duration of six months at ABIS (Aamir Bahadur Sultan Ali) Buffalo Dairy Farm, Gormara, Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) to investigate the variability of skin thickness in relation to milk production. A total of 120 milking Murrah buffaloes were selected for the experiment. The Murrah buffaloes were selected in a range of first to sixth parity and each parity containing 20 buffaloes. All the selected Murrah buffaloes of the present investigation were kept under similar housing system i.e. loose housing system with one shelter along one side of the paddock and provided green fodder and total mix ration as per their requirement. The milking was done by milking machine in milk parlour in morning and evening. Daily milk yield and total milk yield were recorded from the records. The highest average daily milk production was 7.61 ± 0.42, 7.14 ± 0.41, 7.30 ± 0.33 and 7.56 ± 0.37 litres by cows under low skin thickness of chest, hind quarter, udder and flank regions respectively. It was also observed that cows under moderate skin thickness of abdomen and udder were found to have produced highest total milk yield of 1558.05 ± 44.05 and 1562.00 ± 34.42 litres respectively. On contemporary, total milk yield was found to be lowest by cows under thick skin of hind quarter (1511.53 ± 35.04 litres), rump (1483.12 ± 42.89 litres), abdomen (1519.89 ± 35.30 litres) and neck (1398.91 ± 44.49 litres).