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The effect of udder infections on the lactation yield of milk and milk solids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

J. O'Donovan ,
F. H. Dodd  and
F. K. Neave
J. O'Donovan
Affiliation:
University College, Cork, Eire
F. H. Dodd
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading
F. K. Neave
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading
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Summary

Data available for fifty cows mainly infected with Staphylococcus pyogenes have been analysed to determine the effects of udder infections and mastitis on milk, fat and solids-not-fat yield and on fat and solids-not-fat percentages over full lactations.

It was found that lactation yields of milk, solids-not-fat and fat were depressed by 10, 11 and 12% respectively in the presence of infection. These depressions were significant (P < 0·05). The composition of the milk averaged over whole lactations was not significantly affected (P > 0·05), although the mean solids-not-fat percentage of the milk was significantly depressed by 0·196±0·092 during the period of infection.

It is suggested that the depressions in lactation yield and changes in milk composition would have been greater in the absence of antibiotic therapy for mastitis.

Type
Original Articles
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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 1960 , pp. 115 - 120
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1960

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