Basic morphological parameters of milking jennies udder

Abstract

Donkeys’ breeding is getting more and more popular in the recent time and the number of breeders steadily grows. One of the goals of breeding of these animals is milk production. Such a goal was never set before. Donkeys milking gets common but there is number of unexplored donkey characteristics such as physiological, anatomical, as well as milking technology characteristics. The donkey milking process has some specific characteristics due to a little udder capacity. The basic morphological parameters of the Banat donkey jenny udder were measured by a measuring tape: udder circumference in the middle, before and after milking, udder depth and left teat length before and after milking. Our measurement results show that the average udder circumference before milking is 18,73±2,41 cm and after milking 16,09±2,21cm. The udder size difference is evident, whereas there is no difference in the teat size. Observing the udder circumference, it is noticed that there is a small statistical significance in the difference between the values before and after milking, and for all the remaining parameters it has a very high statistical significance