A note on the relationship between the rate of machine-milking and milk production of Ayrshire heifers
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SUMMARYRecords of milking rate, milk yield and milk composition were collected over 12 yr from 123 Ayrshire heifers in their first lactation in one herd. Three direct measures of milking rate, i.e. peak flow rate, machine rate and overall rate were closely correlated and each was also correlated with total lactation yield of milk. Milking rate accounted for only a very small part of the variation in fat and total solids percentages. The mean yield of milk per milking in early lactation was a better predictor of total lactation yield than was milking rate but, among animals giving the same early lactation yield of milk, the faster milkers gave higher lactation yields than the slower milkers.
1953 ◽
Vol 20
(2)
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pp. 138-145
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2010 ◽
Vol 19
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pp. 278-284
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2008 ◽
Vol 52
(No. 5)
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pp. 117-121
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2017 ◽
Vol 62
(No. 9)
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pp. 392-402
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