Biochemical Profile of Milk : A Comparative Study of Health and Mastitic Buffaloes

A study carried out to compare the compositional quality of milk from healthy and mastitic buffaloes revealed mean ± S.E. content of sodium, potassium, chloride, protein, lactose and SNF in milk of healthy quarters as 40.00±1.19 mg/dl, 102.00±0.06 mg/dl, 0.126±0.006 per cent, 3.33±0.03 gm/dl, 5.92±0.01 gm/dl and 8.77±0.05 gm/dl, respectively. The milk from clinically infected quarters showed 85.00, 36.50 and 10.51 per cent higher (P<0.01) levels of sodium, chloride and protein; the actual values being 74±1.66 mg/dl, 0.172±0.012 per cent and 3.68±0.02 gm/dl, respectively. The levels of potassium (65.00±2.40 mg/dl), lactose (3.80±0.02 gm/dl) and SNF (8.36±0.02 gm/dl) in milk from mastitic quarters revealed significant (P<0.01) decrease of 36.27, 35.81 and 4.67 per cent as compared to the corresponding levels in milk from healthy buffaloes.