Information Package / Course Catalogue
Quality Milk Production on Dairy Cattle Farms
Course Code: ZZO548
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 2
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 8
Objectives of the Course

to teach the factors that affect the Hygiene and the quality of cow milk production and the methods to increase the quality

Course Content

Main problems of cattle production in the World and in Turkey, main dairy cattle breeds in the World, udder structure and lactation, milking management, factors affecting milk yield and milk quality, milk quality criteria, mastitis and protection from the mastitis, relationship between udder type traits with milk yield and mastitis and somatic cell count, genetics of mastitis and SCC and their usage in dairy cattle improvement programs

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