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ArticleVeterinary sciences2023

Monitoring the Milk Composition, Milk Microbiota, and Blood Metabolites of Jersey Cows throughout a Lactation Period.

Peter Kiiru Gathinji, Zabiallah Yousofi, Karin Akada, Ajmal Wali, Naoki Nishino

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Article in Veterinary sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Peter Kiiru GathinjiDepartment of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Zabiallah YousofiDepartment of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Karin AkadaAnimal Products Research Group, Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, National Agriculture and Research Organization, Ibaraki 305-0901, Japan.
Ajmal WaliDepartment of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Naoki NishinoDepartment of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6105-8124

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant Number JP19H0310611
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to determine how milk composition, milk microbiota, and blood metabolites may change during the lactation period in Jersey cows. Milk and jugular blood samples were collected from eight healthy cows every other month from the beginning to the end of their lactation period. Samples of airborne dust were also collected to determine whether the cowshed microbiota could affect milk microbiota. Milk yield peaked in the first two months and gradually decreased as the lactation period progressed. Milk fat, protein, and solids-not-fat contents were low in the first month, and then increased during the middle and late lactation periods. In the first month, plasma non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA), haptoglobin (Hp), and aspartate transaminase (AST) levels were elevated, and high abundances of Burkholderiaceae and Oxalobacteraceae were observed in milk and airborne dust microbiota. The finding that contamination of the environmental microbiota in milk was coupled with elevated plasma NEFA, Hp, and AST levels indicated that impaired metabolic function during the early lactation period may increase the invasion of opportunistic bacteria. This study can affirm the importance of feeding and cowshed management and should provide a helpful addition to improving Jersey cow farming.

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airborne dustblood metabolitesJersey cowsmicrobiotamilk

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