Milk production, milk composition, milk fatty acid profiles, and antioxidant status of Simmental cows supplemented with non-protected sunflower oil were studied. Ten Simmental cows in mid-lactation were appointed for change over feeding trial with one of the diet applied: the control (WSO) diet consisted of 26 % corn silage, 33 % perennial ryegrass haylage, and 41 % concentrate in dry matter (D...

Sows that were either fat or lean at farrowing (340 or 280 g of body fat/kg BW, respectively) were offered either a low-protein (LP; 7.9% CP and 15.5 MJ DE/kg as fed) or a high-protein (HP; 19.0% CP and 15.6 MJ DE/kg as fed) diet on an ad libitum basis throughout a 4-wk lactation to test the hypothesis that the amount of milk and its composition are responsive to the supply of endogenous (body ...

Organic milk production has increased rapidly in many European countries during the last decade but the merits of organic dairy products are still disputed. Little unbiased information exists regarding any essential differences in gross composition or other parameters of technological and/or nutritional interest. In order to gather more basic information regarding organic milk, raw milk samples...

the milk and milk fat production records of 28 holstein herds in khorasan razavi province were analyzed in this study. the records were based on 305 days of milking and were from the first to third milking periods and two times milking per day. the fixed effects of herd-year-season and age of dam at parturition as covariate were fitted in the models of analyses. the (co)variance components were...

In many countries, goat farming is the important part from the economy point of the view; especially in the Mediterranean and Middle East region. Goat farming is well organized in France, Italy, Spain and Greece (Park and Haenlein, 2006). Industrialization of the goat milk is not well successed because of its poor and insufficient volume. From 1990, interest in the goat milk production is incre...