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ICAR Technical Series no. 7 - Nitra Proc.

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Evaluation of milking routine by LactoCorderstrong correlation between stepping during milking and bimodality.Assertion for the fact is that animals, which are exposed to stress andtherefore step during milking, keep the milk and thus have a bimodalcurve. Bimodal curves are very strongly correlated with the parameters ofmilking. A bad beginning of milking affects thus the entire milking processnegatively. The time for the main milk flow (tMHG), the plateau phase(tPL) and phase of descent (tAB) is reduced. Also milk quantity andbimodality are high significantly correlated. Further lactation and stadiumof lactation have a high-significant influence on bimodality of the milkflow curve.The effects of the bimodality on udder health can be detected by means ofantiseptical quarter foremilk samples. Parameter for udder health is amongother things the number of cells, whereby a cow is considered as udderhealthy, if it has a cell content less than 100 000 cells/ml on all four quarters(Deutsche Veterinämedizinische Gesellschaft, 1994). A cell content between100 000 and 200 000 is already considered as health and also qualityimpairing; higher cell contents must be defined as pathological. Of theanimals, which had a one peak milk flow curve, 35% were udder healthy.If one regards against it the cows with bimodal curve due to stimulationlacking, then here the proportion of healthy animals (29%) is smaller.These results are ack<strong>no</strong>wledged by the highly significant correlation(r = 0.102) of the bimodal curves and the cell numbers. For further analysisthe data were calculated over the analysis of variance. In figure 2 the effectsfrom stimulation and time to fixing are represented on the cell content ofthe milk. For this the time up to fixing was divided in classes. The smallest2,252,001,751,621,50lg SCC1,251,000,750,500,250,00Bimo0Bimo12,51Figure 2 Effects of Stimulation and time “first touch until attaching the unit” on SCC.72Conference on "Physiological and technicalaspects of machine milking"

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