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663. The relationship between milk secretion and the rate of milking by machine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

P. A. Clough  and
F. H. Dodd
P. A. Clough
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading
F. H. Dodd
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading
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Lactation has two phases: the continuous process of secretion and the mechanism of ejection which occurs only during milking. Because ejection is a transitory phase it is to be expected that within certain limits milk yield will be inversely related to the duration of milking, which was, in fact, demonstrated many years ago with hand-milked cows(1). With machine milking the situation is different because the forces which the machine applies to the udders of all cows within a herd are the same, and thus the differences in milking rate that occur are due to differences between the cows. Under these conditions, if milking rate can be shown to affect milk yield it is a demonstration of how the physiological factors controlling milking rate can modify the expression of the inheritance of milk secretion.

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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 1957 , pp. 152 - 156
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1957

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