Milk production, composition and properties of sheep milk during the laction period
2000
Petrova, N. | Nedelchev, D. (Institute of Animal Science, Kostinbrod (Bulgaria))
A study was carried out to establish milk production and composition of the 41 lactating milking sheep from dairy breed (East Friesian x 1/4 East Friesian x Awassi).Individual milking samples of sheep were taken seven times during the lactation period at monthly intervals from February to August, 1999.Investigated dairy breed sheep have 0.645 l/day/as 6.5% fat corrected milk and 0.693 l/day/as 5.5% protein corrected milk milk production.Mean values for fat (%), protein (%), lactose (%), freezing point (degree C), total solids (%), solid non fat (%) and somatic cell count/ml of investigated milks were 6.41, 5.56. 4.37, -0.578, 17.41, 11.11 and 2072000 respectively.The number of somatic cells of sheep milk was highest during the winning period (2841000/ml) and the differences between winning period and milking period were statistically significant (P0.005).
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