Small Ruminants (goats & sheep)

DPC 24, Troubleshooting High Bacteria Counts of Raw Milk

DPC-024

This guideline is designed to help laboratory, field personnel and producers determine the cause and methods of correction of high bacteria counts in raw milk.

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DPC 28, Troubleshooting Residual Films on Dairy Farm Milk Handling Equipment

DPC-028

This guideline provides practical information for troubleshooting films on dairy farm milk handling equipment.

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DPC 7, Sampling Fluid Milk

DPC-007

This guideline is designed to help laboratory, field personnel and producers determine the cause and methods of correction of high bacteria counts in raw milk.

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DPC 21, Raw Milk Quality Tests

DPC-021

This guideline provides information on the common tests used for evaluating the quality of raw milk.

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DPC 30, Potable Water on Dairy Farms

DPC-030

This Guideline is written for regulatory officials, sanitarians, cooperative extension personnel, engineers and others who are advising dairy farmers on potable water supplies on dairy farms.

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DPC 11, Sediment Testing and Producing Clean Milk

DPC-011

This guideline presents the merits of the sediment test, standards, details on performing the test, instructions on how to produce clean milk, and concludes with a brief statement about filtering milk.

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DPC 15, Milking Center Wastewater

DPC-015

This guideline provides effective methods of disposal of wastewater from milking centers.

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DPC 18, Field Person's Guide to Troubleshooting High Somatic Cell Counts

DPC-018

This guideline briefly discusses the significance of the problem of high somatic cell count (abnormal milk).

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DPC 49, Pre and Postmilking Teat Disinfectants

DPC-049

This guideline offers a discussion of good teat disinfection popularly referred to as teat dipping.

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DPC 50, Farm Bulk Milk Collection Procedures

DPC-050

This guideline provides information to the bulk milk hauler/sampler, the vital link between producers and handlers, on the proper techniques, principles, and procedures.

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DPC 59, Production and Regulation of Quality Dairy Goat Milk

DPC-059

This guideline deals with milk quality standards as applied to goat milk and is considered an introductory guideline to goat milk production.

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DPC 70, Small Ruminant Milking Systems

DPC-070

This guideline provides a practical discussion, for dairymen and certified equipment dealers, of the installation, cleaning and sanitizing of small ruminant milking systems.

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DPC 71, Farmers Guide to Somatic Cell Counts in Sheep

DPC-071

This guideline was developed to educate farmers, veterinarians and milk quality specialists on Somatic Cell Counts (SCC) in Sheep.

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DPC 72, Farmers Guide to Somatic Cell Counts in Goats

DPC-072

This guideline was developed to educate farmers, veterinarians and milk quality specialists on Somatic Cell Counts (SCC) in Goats.

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DPC 73, Layout of Dairy Milkhouses for Small Ruminant Operations

DPC-073

This guideline provides useful information pertaining to milkrooms and milk cooler installations for small ruminant operations.

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DPC 75, CD Direct Microscopic Examination of Milk From Small Ruminants

DPC-075

This PowerPoint guideline explains the reasons, and methods, for performing direct microscopic somatic cell counting of milk from dairy animals with apocrine mammary systems.

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DPC 76, Out-Of-Season Breeding for Goats

DPC-076

This guideline is designed to help dairy goat producers that are trying to milk goats throughout the year breed their goats out of season.

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DPC 78, Biosecurity for Sheep and Goat Dairies

DPC-078

The purpose of this document is to provide producers with a practical guideline for implementing biosecurity practices on sheep and goat dairies.

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DPC 90, On-farm and Small-Scale Dairy Products Processing

DPC-090

This guideline has been designed to help those persons interested in processing and marketing milk and milk by-products that are produced and packaged in small-scale plants located on farms or in nearby non-farm sites.

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DPC 100, Food Safety in Farmstead Cheesemaking

DPC-100

This guideline was developed to help farmstead cheese makers develop their own food safety plans with the goal of reducing the chance that their products will be associated with a foodborne disease outbreak.

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DPC 108, Guidelines for Proper Cooling of Milk on Dairy Farms

DPC-108

This guideline provides information pertaining to methods and equipment for cooling milk on the farm.

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