Journal
JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE
Volume 90, Issue 8, Pages 3986-3992Publisher
AMER DAIRY SCIENCE ASSOC
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2006-627
Keywords
milk coagulation ability; dairy cattle breed; herd milk
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Samples of herd milk (506) were analyzed to assess sources of variation for milk coagulation properties (MCP) for 5 different dairy cattle breeds. Data were recorded in 55 single- breed dairy herds in the Trento province, a mountain area in northeast Italy. The 5 cattle breeds were Holstein- Friesian (8 herds), Brown Swiss (16 herds), Simmental (10 herds), Rendena (13 herds), and Alpine Gray (8 herds). Herd milk samples were analyzed for the MCP traits, milk rennet coagulation time (RCT), curd- firming time, and curd firmness (alpha(30)), as well as protein and fat percentages, somatic cell count, Soxhlet- Henkel acidity, and bacterial count. An ANOVA was performed to study the effect of breed, herd within breed, DIM, month of lactation, protein and fat percentages, somatic cell score, titratable acidity, and log bacterial count within breed on MCP. Breed was the most important source of variation. In particular, the Rendena breed showed the best MCP traits at 13.5 min and 27.0 mm for RCT and alpha(30), respectively. The Holstein- Friesian breed had the worst coagulation properties at 18.0 min and 17.5 mm for RCT and alpha(30), respectively. The other 3 breeds showed intermediate coagulation properties. The RCT values were better at the beginning of lactation, whereas RCT and alpha(30) values were better in September and October (14.3 min and 25.7 mm, respectively). Among the composition traits, only the titratable acidity affected MCP traits of herd milk positively.
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