Milk Quality Investigations - part 1
11/08/22 • 37 min
This week we sit down with one of our neighbors to the north, Dr. Cathy Bauman of Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bauman's research focuses on helping producers identify, investigate, and mitigate milk quality issues as efficiently as possible. On this episode, we lay the groundwork for conducting a milk quality investigation on a goat dairy by introducing concepts for identifying a milk quality problem; measurable paramaters for evaluating milk quality (specifically somatic cell count and bacterial counts); general principles governing fluctuations in these numbers as they relate to milk production on a goat dairy; key players to have on your team during an investigation; and finally, Dr. Bauman discusses the relationship between high quality milk and cheese production. This is part 1 of a 2 part series that delves into a logical step-wise approach to working up milk quality issues on a dairy goat operation.
Helpful Links:
Small Ruminant Veterinarians of Ontario
https://srvo.ca/
Dr. Cathy Bauman - Ontario Veterinary College
https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Cathy-Bauman
American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners - find a vet
http://www.aasrp.org/about/find_a_vet.asp
This podcast is sponsored by the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners as well as USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Program, Antimicrobial Resistance grant # 2020-04197.
Questions or comments about today's episode can be directed to [email protected]
This week we sit down with one of our neighbors to the north, Dr. Cathy Bauman of Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bauman's research focuses on helping producers identify, investigate, and mitigate milk quality issues as efficiently as possible. On this episode, we lay the groundwork for conducting a milk quality investigation on a goat dairy by introducing concepts for identifying a milk quality problem; measurable paramaters for evaluating milk quality (specifically somatic cell count and bacterial counts); general principles governing fluctuations in these numbers as they relate to milk production on a goat dairy; key players to have on your team during an investigation; and finally, Dr. Bauman discusses the relationship between high quality milk and cheese production. This is part 1 of a 2 part series that delves into a logical step-wise approach to working up milk quality issues on a dairy goat operation.
Helpful Links:
Small Ruminant Veterinarians of Ontario
https://srvo.ca/
Dr. Cathy Bauman - Ontario Veterinary College
https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Cathy-Bauman
American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners - find a vet
http://www.aasrp.org/about/find_a_vet.asp
This podcast is sponsored by the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners as well as USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Program, Antimicrobial Resistance grant # 2020-04197.
Questions or comments about today's episode can be directed to [email protected]
Previous Episode
Feeding Your Future
On this episode we sit down with Dr. Robert VanSaun from Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Andrea Mongini of M&M Veterinary Practice and Ewetopia Dairy in Denair, CA to discuss feeding goat kids from 2 days of age until weaning. This is the second half of our 2 part series on youngstock nutrition. Listeners are encouraged to email [email protected] with feedback and questions to be addressed to our content experts.
Topics of conversation include options for feeding growing kids on bottles; pros and cons of feeding goat's milk, cow's milk or milk replacer; cleaning feeding equipment; nutritional requirements of young goats; managing coccidia, and more.
Helpful Links:
Basic Small Ruminant Nutrition:
https://bovine-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/bovine/index.php/AABP/article/view/3553
This podcast is sponsored by the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners as well as USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Program, Antimicrobial Resistance grant # 2020-04197.
Questions or comments about today's episode can be directed to [email protected]
Next Episode
Milk Quality Investigations - part 2
This week we continue our conversation with Dr. Cathy Bauman of Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario, Canada about conducting a milk quality investigation on a goat dairy by walking through the process for tracking down a high bulk tank bacterial count.
Helpful Links:
Luminometer FAQ
https://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/food-safety/at-the-food-processor/luminometers.html
Small Ruminant Veterinarians of Ontario
https://srvo.ca/
Dr. Cathy Bauman - Ontario Veterinary College
https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Cathy-Bauman
American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners - find a vet
http://www.aasrp.org/about/find_a_vet.asp
This podcast is sponsored by the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners as well as USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Program, Antimicrobial Resistance grant # 2020-04197.
Questions or comments about today's episode can be directed to [email protected]
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