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Old 08/08/13, 09:26 AM
 
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Study in the effect of baking soda in diet & milk
I found a study on adding baking soda to the diet of goats...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...2203028282153X
Excerpt: the bicarbonate diet caused an increase in fat content and total solids content of milk.

Interesting.

ETA: Grr...title should read "Study on..."
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Interesting! Makes me want to perform my own experiments. Maybe next freshening.
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Nothing suprising here. A leading cause in milk fat depression is chronic acidosis and altered (lowered) rumen pH and thus altered rumen fermentation. Extremely common in high production, high carb intake animals.
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Interesting.
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Interesting. More research for me.
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The feed mix I was using contained a decent amount of Bicarb. I had extremely rich creamy milk, but, never had anything BEFORE to compare it to!
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