Somatic cell count in milk from individua! dairy cows and selected indicators

KVAPILÍK, Jindřich, JEDELSKÁ, R., HANUŠ, O., URBAN, P., ŘÍHA, J., KOPUNECZ, P., SEYDLOVÁ, R., ROUBAL, P., ZLATNÍČEK, J. and KLIMEŠ, M. Somatic cell count in milk from individua! dairy cows and selected indicators. Mlékařské listy 158, 2016, vol. 27(5), p. 5-12. ISSN 1212-950X.
Year2016
CathegoryPublication in specialized journals
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Abstract

The paper evaluates briefly the indicators identified by milk recording (MR) of dairy cows along technical and technological characteristics of the 14 experimental stables for the years 2012-2015. These are the: – somatic cell count in milk (PSB), – milk production per cow and day in MR day, – fat and protein content in milk. In dairy cows the PSB was: – by 25 thousands/ml (ths./ml) and 9% higher in the lowland area than in the foothills and mountains, – at grazing (two out of 14 herds) lower by 38 ths./ml and 13% than in milk cow with no grazing, – in Holstein milk higher by 65 ths./ml and 28% than in Czech Fleckvieh milk. In average, between 2012 and 2015, the PSBs of all stables were significantly reduced by 10% along increased milk production per cow and day by 4% and fat and protein con­tent by 0.03 and 0.06%. From PSB development between 2012 and 2015 there is estimated an increasing of the milk premiums for milk with PSB up to 100 ths./ml and a reduc­tion in milk penalties for milk with PSB over 400 ths./ml on average CZK 225 per cow and year (CZK 0.025 per kg of sold milk). Relatively high variability of milk indicators points to the possibility of PSB reducing, the increase of raw milk quality and improvement of the economic results of primary milk production.