Using refractometers in calf rearing I. - evaluation of the colostrum quality

STANĚK, S., ŠLOSÁRKOVÁ, S. & FLEISCHER, P. Použití refraktometrů v odchovu telat I. - hodnocení. Náš chov, 2015, roč. 75, č. 9, s. 70-71.{INTLINK}
STANĚK, Stanislav, ŠLOSÁRKOVÁ, Soňa and FLEISCHER, Petr. Using refractometers in calf rearing I. - evaluation of the colostrum quality. Náš chov, 2015, vol. 75(9), p. 70-71. ISSN .
Year2015
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Abstract

Many reserves can be found in the level of management of colostral nutrition by national as well as by foreign breeders. The main reserve is the unsufficient attention that the breeders or stablemen pay to the quality of colostrum (imunological, microbiological). By national breeders, the quality of colostrum is controlled only by a half of them (44.0 %). The aim of the submission is to summarize the possibilities of colostral quality evaluation in breeders practice – the calf rearing, including the interpretation of the results from refractometers with the Brix scale. The work results are summarized (setting, calibration, application of the controlled sample) with the optical and digital refractometer.