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A note on the milk composition of awassi ewes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

I. Fadel,
J. B. Owen,
R. Kassem and
H. Juha
I. Fadel
Affiliation:
Al-Kraim Centre for Sheep Breeding and Range Development, Salamieh, Syria
J. B. Owen
Affiliation:
Centre for Arid Zone Studies, School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW
R. Kassem
Affiliation:
Al-Kraim Centre for Sheep Breeding and Range Development, Salamieh, Syria
H. Juha
Affiliation:
Al-Kraim Centre for Sheep Breeding and Range Development, Salamieh, Syria
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Abstract

Milk composition in Awassi sheep was determined in relation to time of milking, stage of lactation and age of ewe. About 80 ewes of the main flock of the Kraim Centre, were used. Fat, total solids and solids not fat proportions were not significantly affected by age of ewe, but they increased as stage of lactation advanced. With equal intervals of milking of 12 h, milk fat and total solids proportions were higher in the evening milk than in the morning milk although no differences between the morning and evening in the quantity of milk obtained were observed.

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Animal Production , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , June 1989, pp. 606 - 610
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1989

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