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Ruminant Nutrition and Forage Utilization
Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences 1994;7(1): 63-68.
https://doi.org/10.5713/ajas.1994.63    Published online March 1, 1994.
Mineral characteristics of raw goat milk from the region of Goiânia, Brazil
M. J. Dias, C. A. Tanezini, W. T. D'Alessandro, A. B. C. de Oliveria, J. de M. Rocha, I dos S. Pontes, A. L. de Carvalho, J. T. de Sousa
Abstract
432 samples of raw goat milk were analyzed for sodium, calcium, potassium, chloride, and ashes content. The samples came from 16 pure breed goats, 2 to 4 years of age kept in semi-feedlots. They were basically fed soy bran, cotton bran, triturated Guandu hay and disintegrated corn with its straw and corncob (according to requirements for due preservation and production). the mean values found were : sodium, 45 10.2 mg%(24.5-65.6 mg%); potassium, 206 44.7 mg% (116.6-295 mg%); calcium, 111 22 mg% (66.5-155.4 mg%); ashes, 0.82 0.06% (0.68-0.95); chloride, 235 39 mg% (157-313 mg%). Results were related to: a) breed, the Brown and the Saanen revealed superior values for calcium and ashes, b) climate, which in therain season led to higher contents od sodium, potassium, and calcium when compared to the local dry season, c) time of lactation which increasingly affected the contents of calcium, sodium and ashes, and d) the time between milking, when higher concentration of chloride and ashes were mostly concentrated in the evening and calcium in the morning. These results have important implications in the handling and management of the goat herd.
Keywords: Goat''s Milk; Mineral Characteristics; quality Control; Breed; Climate; Lactation Time


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