It all started in year 2007 when one book got published by the name of ‘Devil in the Milk’ written by Prof. Dr Keithwood forth. In this book first time we came to know that there are two types of cows in the world. One is A1 protein european cows like Jersey, Holstein Friesian, Red den etc. & another one is A2 protein desi cows like Gir, Tharparkar, Sahiwal, Rathi, Gangatiri etc. As research states that A1 protein milk is harmful to our body & leads to diseases from diabetes to cancer. It weakens our immunity system & our digestion gets imbalance. If we see the main difference in both breeds are as follows:
1. Indian cows have big humps and long horns where the jersey or other European breed cows don’t have.
2. Some of the North Indian breeds such as Gir, Kankrej, Tharparkar cows have long dewlap and ears with long loose coat to cool their body. But the Jersey cow’s doesn’t have these.
3. Indian cows gives more calves during their lifetime average of more than 12 but the Jersey cows gives less calves in their lifetime.
4. The Indian calf’s takes a longer time to get impregnated generally 30-36 months, whereas the Jersey breeds calves takes 18-24 months.
5. The dung of the Indian cows contains more microbes and micro nutrients approximately 85-90% whereas the Jersey cow contains 50-60% only. Hence when the Indian cow dung is used in organic farming we gets good results within short time because of its composition.
6. Desi cow is having traces of gold in urine, as found by the Junagadh Agricultural University.
7. Now there are 33 identified species of cows in India and these are developed by nature depending on the climatic conditions, availability of fodder, way of working etc.
8. Most importantly Desi cow has surya ketu nadi which passes through her hump and absorb all cosmic energy.