MILK COMPOSITION EVALUATION IN DIFFERENT BREEDS OF LOCAL DAIRY TYPE ANIMALS IN PUNJAB

Abstract

The current study was carried out during the reign of July 2022 to June 2023 involving 1682 collected milk samples to evaluate the effect of species on milk composition including fat, protein, solid not fat (SNF) and total solids (TS) from indigenous livestock species of Punjab, Pakistan kept for milk purpose under local conditions including cow, sheep, goat and camel. The study was carried out a Livestock Production Research Institute, Bahadurnagar, Okara. The objective of current study was to investigate the effect of species on composition of milk for. For this purpose the milk samples were collected from different species and breeds within including pure Sahiwal cow, cross bred Sahiwal cow with Friesian, local non-descript cow, Lohi sheep, goat and camels maintained at different livestock experiment stations under Livestock and Dairy development department Punjab, Pakistan. Results showed lacto meter reading (LR) was highest in Lohi sheep 30.02 followed by camel 29.59, buffalo 30.15 and then cow breeds. Milk fat was highest in Lohi sheep 7.17 percent followed by camel 5.63 percent, buffalo 6.76 percent and goat 4.73 percent. Milk fat content of purebred Sahiwal, cross bred Sahiwal and local Qadirabad cow is 4.77, 4.52 and 5.19 percent respectively. Solid not fat (SNF) content was highest in Lohi sheep 8.98 percent followed by Buffalo 8.84 and camel 8.51 percent. SNF content for goat is 7.55 and for purebred Sahiwal, cross bred Sahiwal and local Qadirabad cow is 7.50, 7.28 and 7.79 respectively. Total solids (TS) was found to be highest in Lohi sheep 16.12 followed by buffalo 15.83 and then camel 13.97 and cow. The milk protein content was found to be highest for goat 4.82 percent followed by sheep 4.75, camel 3.95 and then by cow and buffalo.