Microbial Load in Fore-milk and Total Milk of Iraqi Local Goat Breed

Volume 16 , Issue 1 , October 2014 , Pages 261-270

Authors

¹ Department of Animal resources, College of Agriculture and Forestry. University of Mosul

² Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University ofMosul

The current study was carried out on ten local goat breed belong to a private

farmers in Bashika city, 20 km north east of Mosul province. The aim of this study was

to evaluate the hygienic state of goat's milk, depending on the Total Bacteria Count and

Total Fungi count. Milk samples were collected from each goat every ten days and for

three times. The samples represented the fore-milk, remained milk [which is free from

fore- milk] and the total milk. The laboratory examination of milk samples revealed that

the total bacteria count were [3.36 log for fore - milk, 2.8 log for remained milk and

3.3X103log/ ml[cfu] for mixed milk]. Also total fungi count were[ 2.72 log for fore - milk,

2.5 log for remained milk and 2.63 X102 log / ml[cfu] for mixed milk ]. The results

showed that there is variation in the percentage of total bacteria count and total fungi

between the fore-milk, remained milk which free from fore- milk and the mixed milk

were 72.25, 12. 88 , 68.28 % and 39.77, 18.74, 25.89% respectively.

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