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Note on the composition of a fluid obtained from the udders of virgin heifers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Herbert Ernest Woodman  and
John Hammond
Herbert Ernest Woodman
Affiliation:
Institute for the Study of Animal Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Cambridge University.
John Hammond
Affiliation:
Institute for the Study of Animal Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Cambridge University.
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Extract

The secretion of milk by the mammary glands normally follows a period of pregnancy, but numerous cases have been cited in the literature of secretion which takes place in animals that have never borne young. Non-pregnant bitches frequently secrete milk several weeks after oestrus (1), and a secretion, apparently similar to milk, takes place after pseudo-pregnancy in rabbits (2). No quantitative analyses have been made of these secretions to show whether they possess the characteristics of true milk or colostrum.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1922 , pp. 97 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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