Lactose is the main carbohydrate in mammals' milk, and it is responsible for the osmotic
equilibrium between blood and alveolar lumen in the mammary gland. It is the major bovine …

Milk coagulation properties (MCP) have been widely investigated in the past using milk
collected from different cattle breeds and herds. However, to our knowledge, no previous …

Udder health in dairy herds is a very important issue given its implications for animal welfare
and the production of high-quality milk. Somatic cell count (SCC) is the most widely used …

Cheese-making traits in dairy cattle are important to the dairy industry but are difficult to
measure at the individual level because there are limitations on collecting phenotypic …

The study of the complex relationships between milk metagenomics and milk composition
and cheese-making efficiency as affected by indoor farming and summer highland grazing …

Rotational crossbreeding has not been widely studied in relation to the enteric methane
emissions of dairy cows, nor has the variation in emissions during lactation been modeled …

The objectives of this study were to characterize the variation in curd firmness model
parameters obtained from coagulating bovine milk samples, and to investigate the effects of …

Montbéliarde (MO)× Holstein (HO) and Viking Red (VR)× HO crossbred cows were
compared with pure HO cows in 8 large, high-performance dairy herds. All cows were either …

Little is known about cheese-making efficiency at the individual cow level, so our objective
was to study the effects of herd productivity, individual herd within productivity class and …

The main goal of crossbreeding Holstein–Friesian (HF) cows with bulls of other dairy or
combined breeds is to improve their performance traits. Thus, the aim of this investigation …