In the century of research chronicled between 1917 and 2017, dairy goats have gone from
simply serving as surrogates to cows to serving as transgenic carriers of human enzymes …

To meet the energy requirements of high-yielding dairy cows, grains and fats have
increasingly been incorporated in ruminant diets. Moreover, lipid supplements have been …

Consumption of milk and dairy products is important in Western industrialised countries. Fat
content is an important constituent contributing to the nutritional quality of milk and dairy …

Growth in demand for foods with potentially beneficial effects on consumer health has
motivated increased interest in developing strategies for improving the nutritional quality of …

Goat milk is globally consumed but nutritional profiling at retail level is scarce. This study
compared the nutrient composition of retail cow and goat milk (basic solids, fatty acids …

Background Colonization of intestinal microbiota in ruminant during the early life is important
to host health, metabolism and immunity. Accumulating evidence revealed the ameliorative …

Recent knowledge is presented on the composition of ruminant milk fat fractions and the
nutritional strategies known to alter their amount. The development of lipidomic and …

Direct comparison of cow and goat performance and milk fatty acid responses to diets
known to induce milk fat depression (MFD) in the bovine reveals relevant species-by-diet …

The modulation of milk fat nutritional quality through fish oil supplementation seems to be
largely explained by the action of n-3 very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on …

ABSTRACT A direct comparative study of dairy cows and goats was performed to
characterize the animal performance and milk fatty acid (FA) responses to 2 types of diets …