Summary of full report Dairy Products and Farming
Techniques for the Sheep Milking Industry
by Roberta Bencini
September 2005
RIRDC Publication No 05/142
RIRDC Project No UWA 66A
Summary The sheep milking industry
is still in its infancy even though Australia imports sheep milk products
and farm gate returns for sheep milk are high. The lack of productive dairy
sheep has been a hindrance to the establishment of the sheep milking industry
and the industry faces the problem of identifying productive genotypes
of sheep that will make sheep milking economically viable. This project
investigated the milk production, milk composition and processing performance
of the milk from sheep that have extra copies of the ovine Growth Hormone
gene.
