Qualitative characteristics of sheep milk in late lactation

Abstract

The importance of the presence of plasmin in bovine milk is now well known and has been widely reviewed (Hegaard et al. 1994; Benfeldt et al., 1995; Gilmore et al., 1995; White et al., 1995; Baldi et al., 1996; Bastian and Brown, 1996; Aslam and Hurley, 1997; Saint-Denis et al., 2001). Its adverse qualitative and quantitative effects on milk and derived products, together with several other variability factors, have been extensively studied (Fox,1981; Fox,1982; Bastian et al., 1991)...

Keywords

• ewe milk, late lactation, linear score, plasmin.