Guest guest Posted February 28, 2002 Report Share Posted February 28, 2002 Per my calculations my cow's milk from this morning has 25% butterfat. Isn't that amazing! Does anyone else have that much butterfat in their milk? Dennis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2002 Report Share Posted February 28, 2002 Hi Dennis How are you calculating this. In the late fall when our cows come up on butterfat our milk will separate out to about one half milk one half cream but the butter fat is only 6 to 7 %. 25% is a lot on cream. Would like to what kind of cow produces this. dkemnitz2000 wrote: > Per my calculations my cow's milk from this morning has 25% butterfat. > Isn't that amazing! Does anyone else have that much butterfat in > their milk? Dennis > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2002 Report Share Posted March 1, 2002 Hello : I used an unofficial yardstick method to calculate betterfat %. In a gallon jar approximately 3/4 full of whole milk I measured 1.5 " of yellow solution and had a combined heighth of 6 " . This unofficially gives me 25%. I thought 6-7% was about the max for cow's and doesn't that happen toward the end of lactation? In other words the cow's %fat goes up as the cow progresses through lactation. We have one brown swiss currently pasturing in Kansas on wheat when weather permits. I have done lots of Babcock and ether extraction tests on patron samples but never compared them to the yardstick method. I am surprised when the cream is allowed to rise there appears to be so much on top. I'll have to get an official Babcock test ran on our cow's milk. What breed do you milk? Do you have an idea of the total solids in the milk? Best regards, Dennis > > > Per my calculations my cow's milk from this morning has 25% butterfat. > > Isn't that amazing! Does anyone else have that much butterfat in > > their milk? Dennis > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2002 Report Share Posted March 1, 2002 >>>>>>>, >>>>>>>Thanks for the profile on your milk. I never thought about >>>>>>>>some of the solids in addition to cream rising. I'll run a >>>>>total solids and %fat on this cow's milk. Where do you send >>>>>>>samples for testing? Dennis 2/28/2002 7:12 PM > > > > > > > Per my calculations my cow's milk from this morning has 25% > > butterfat. > > > > Isn't that amazing! Does anyone else have that much butterfat in > > > > their milk? Dennis > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2002 Report Share Posted March 1, 2002 Hi Dennis We milk Jerseys and a few Jersey crosses. I think what you meant to say is that you have 25% solids (cream) on your milk. I don't mean to be picky but I am trying avoid some future confusion. Cream consists of Butter Fat, Protein, Lactose, and a few other solids but the three I named are the largest amount. Last Nov. when we dried our cows up for the winter our tests were as follows. Butter fat 5.59 Protein 3.89 Lactose 4.20 Other solids 5.16 Total solids 14.64 This average was on 92 cows. Last year our butter fat did hit 7% once however it was a lot drier and the cows were eating a lower quality forage. Hope this helps dkemnitz2000 wrote: > Hello : > I used an unofficial yardstick method to calculate betterfat %. In a > gallon jar approximately 3/4 full of whole milk I measured 1.5 " of > yellow solution and had a combined heighth of 6 " . This unofficially > gives me 25%. I thought 6-7% was about the max for cow's and doesn't > that happen toward the end of lactation? In other words the cow's > %fat goes up as the cow progresses through lactation. We have one > brown swiss currently pasturing in Kansas on wheat when weather > permits. I have done lots of Babcock and ether extraction tests on > patron samples but never compared them to the yardstick method. I am > surprised when the cream is allowed to rise there appears to be so > much on top. I'll have to get an official Babcock test ran on our > cow's milk. > What breed do you milk? Do you have an idea of the total solids in > the milk? Best regards, Dennis > > > > > > > Per my calculations my cow's milk from this morning has 25% > butterfat. > > > Isn't that amazing! Does anyone else have that much butterfat in > > > their milk? Dennis > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2002 Report Share Posted March 1, 2002 Hi Dennis Our milk company does this so they can determine what to pay us. I'm sure there are labs that offer the same. dkemnitz2000 wrote: > >>>>>>>, > >>>>>>>Thanks for the profile on your milk. I never thought about > >>>>>>>>some of the solids in addition to cream rising. I'll run a > >>>>>total solids and %fat on this cow's milk. Where do you send > >>>>>>>samples for testing? Dennis 2/28/2002 7:12 PM > > > > > > > > > > > Per my calculations my cow's milk from this morning has 25% > > > butterfat. > > > > > Isn't that amazing! Does anyone else have that much butterfat > in > > > > > their milk? Dennis > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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