Guest guest Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 I'm willing to be a lab. My organic dairy has worked with various diagnostic laboratories on research topics. As a member of the National Mastitis Council, I have access to labs that can looks at pathogen growth in various milk samples in a quantitative way. I've been dying to do this since for my MS thesis I studies mastitis outbreaks in dairy cattle due to environmental streptococci. I learned that these organisms are inhibited my lipoperoxidase activity in milk and are inhibited by certain fatty acid profiles in keratin of the teat canal. The same shift in fatty acid profile that allows the organism to enter the gland can occur in fatty acids of the milk of animals in a negative energy balance or with acidosis (caused by excess grain feeding). In our nutritional consulting to client herds, when we decrease grain and increase fiber from forage in the ration, we typically see a drop in somatic cell count of 100,000 to 150,000 cells/ml (indicating a huge decrease in subclinical mastitis infection). Our organic, forage fed herd has some of the lowest somatic cell tests in the state. This is the long way of saying, I'm willing and ready to collect milk samples and conduct the lab pathogen growth experiments. I'd be thrilled if any of you want to help frame the hypothesis. Meg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 MEG! You are too amazing. Terry will be doing the kefir dance soon with over this. It would be great to have you be the lab. Let's form some hypotheses and GO! mcattell@... wrote: I'm willing to be a lab. My organic dairy has worked with various diagnostic laboratories on research topics. As a member of the National Mastitis Council, I have access to labs that can looks at pathogen growth in various milk samples in a quantitative way. I've been dying to do this since for my MS thesis I studies mastitis outbreaks in dairy cattle due to environmental streptococci. I learned that these organisms are inhibited my lipoperoxidase activity in milk and are inhibited by certain fatty acid profiles in keratin of the teat canal. The same shift in fatty acid profile that allows the organism to enter the gland can occur in fatty acids of the milk of animals in a negative energy balance or with acidosis (caused by excess grain feeding). In our nutritional consulting to client herds, when we decrease grain and increase fiber from forage in the ration, we typically see a drop in somatic cell count of 100,000 to 150,000 cells/ml (indicating a huge decrease in subclinical mastitis infection). Our organic, forage fed herd has some of the lowest somatic cell tests in the state. This is the long way of saying, I'm willing and ready to collect milk samples and conduct the lab pathogen growth experiments. I'd be thrilled if any of you want to help frame the hypothesis. Meg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 Yes I will, and I figure we'll hear from Sally on this one.... Terry > MEG! You are too amazing. Terry will be doing the kefir dance soon with> over this. It would be great to have you be the lab.> Let's form some hypotheses and GO!> > > mcattell@... wrote:> I'm> willing to be a lab. My organic dairy has worked with various diagnostic> laboratories on research topics. As a member of the National Mastitis> Council,> I have access to labs that can looks at pathogen growth in various milk> samples in a quantitative way.> I've been dying to do this since for my MS thesis I> studies mastitis outbreaks in dairy cattle due to environmental streptococci.> I learned that these organisms are inhibited my lipoperoxidase activity in> milk and are inhibited by certain fatty acid profiles in keratin of the teat> canal. The same shift in fatty acid profile that allows the organism to enter the> gland can occur in fatty acids of the milk of animals in a negative energy> balance or with acidosis (caused by excess grain feeding). In our nutritional> consulting to client herds, when we decrease grain and increase fiber from> forage in the ration, we typically see a drop in somatic cell count of 100,000 to> 150,000 cells/ml (indicating a huge decrease in subclinical mastitis> infection). Our organic, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Hey there, Does anybody have info on Listeria? We were at some friends' house this weekend, and their daughter is an OB/GYN, she had a fit that my preg sister-in-law is drinking raw milk and cited listeria as her concern. Thanks, Liberty Top of the World Farm On 29 Mar 2004 at 22:33, RawDairy wrote: > > There are 25 messages in this issue. > > Topics in this digest: > > 1. Re: Yay! I found some raw milk!!!!!!! Now a few q's........ > > 2. RE: Re: Yay! I found some raw milk!!!!!!! Now a few q's........ > > 3. Re: Re: leukemia virus in milk > > 4. Re: Jill/kefir vs bacteria in Primal Defense > > 5. BLV > > 6. Re: BLV > > 7. Pls welcome Ann to the list! > > 8. Raw milk for NYC > > 9. Bovine Leukemia and Raw Milk Consumption > > 10. Re: BLV > > 11. Giardia in milk > > 12. Re: Bovine Leukemia and Raw Milk Consumption > > 13. Bovine Leukemia > > 14. Re: Bovine Leukemia and Raw Milk Consumption > > 15. BLV and pesticides > > 16. correction: Organic Pastures' Raw Milk & Colostrum > > 17. Re: correction: Organic Pastures' Raw Milk & Colostrum > > 18. What price grassfed raw milk? > > 19. Re: What price grassfed raw milk? > > 20. Re: Bovine Leukemia > > 21. Re: An Alternative to Antibiotics, are we carriers > > 22. Re: Raw milk induced fever? Value of bulking of milk? > > 23. Kefir + yogurt > > 24. Organic Choice LLC. > > 25. Organic Choice Alternative Processing > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:03:25 -0000 > > Subject: Re: Yay! I found some raw milk!!!!!!! Now a few q's........ > > You need to consider the prize a dairy pays the farmers for a gallon > of milk, too. > I now pay 10 Cents less for raw milk from a farm than I would pay for > the cheapest past/homo milk from a supermarket. But I know that the > dairies pay the farmers a lot less. > CU Anja > > > > Dear Jen in Louisana, > > Isn't $2.00 too little to pay a farmer for a gallon of milk? > > Wickert > > Viroqua, WI > > > > PLEASE BE KIND AND TRIM YOUR POSTS WHEN REPLYING! > > Check out these links! > Midvalleyvu Farms http://www.midvalleyvu.com > The Weston A. Price Foundation: http://www.westonaprice.org > The Untold Story of Milk http://www.drrons.com/untoldstoryofmilk.html > Please visit our Raw Dairy files for a wealth of information: > FILES: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RawDairy/files/ > Database: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RawDairy/database > Recipes: > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RawDairy/database?method=reportRows & tbl > =1 > <http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RawDairy/database?method=reportRows & tb > l=1> > Contact List: > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RawDairy/database?method=reportRows & tbl > =2 > <http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RawDairy/database?method=reportRows & tb > l=2> > Photos: http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/RawDairy/lst > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 At 05:01 PM 3/29/04 -0600, you wrote: >MEG! You are too amazing. Terry will be doing the kefir dance soon with over this. It would be great to have you be the lab. Let's form some hypotheses and GO! > > Actually, wouldn't that have to be the (Real)Milk Dance? The Spiffy Cool Bacteria Dance? Hmmmmmm ... how shall we differentiate them from the Kefir Dance? Different steps, different hippers? (sorry, listmoms!) MFJ Any moment in which you feel like dancing is a perfect moment. Singing works, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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