1. Relationships between production, quality of milk and udder health status of ewes during machine milking
- Author
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Dušan Apolen, Anton Čapistrák, Margetin Margetín, Michal Milerski, M. Oravcová, and Ondrej Debrecéni
- Subjects
Tsigai ,food and beverages ,ewe ,production and composition of milk ,somatic cell count ,udder ,milkability ,Biology ,Milk production ,Milking ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,fluids and secretions ,Animal science ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,chemistry ,Lactation ,medicine ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Lactose ,Udder ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Purebred ,Somatic cell count - Abstract
The chosen traits of production, composition and quality of milk (analysis of 255 milk samples) were evaluated in ewes on the 1st to 3rd lactation (n=64) during milking period (4 control measurements – CM) and in the machine milking conditions. Udder health status of the ewes (UHS; n=255) was evaluated by means of 5 point linear scale subjectively at the same time. The ewes of three pure breeds (Tsigai – T, Improved Valachian – IV and Lacaune – LC) and two crossbreds (TxLC and IVxLC) were involved in the experiment. The machine milked milk (milk production) at CM (0.462 kg), the proportion of machine stripped milk (25.19 %) and also UHS (1.65) were significantly affected by the genotype group (P0.05 respectively).
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- 2013