Training objective: To provide participants with comprehensive knowledge of the hygiene and technological requirements for the production and processing of milk from small ruminants, including opportunities for improving production quality.
Date: March 26th, 2025 (application deadline March 12th, 2025)
Location: Ke Dvoru 12a, Prague 6
Lecturers: Ing. Růžena Seydlová, Ph.D., Hedvika Dragounová
Schedule: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (registration from 8:30 a.m.)
Program:
Theoretical part
- Breeding and milk production
- Overview of breeds, herd development, productivity
- Farm size and technical equipment
- Milk quality
- Hygiene requirements, preparation for milking
- Standards and certification for goat and sheep milk
- Microbiological quality and somatic cell count
- Factors affecting quality
- Changes after modification of milking technology
- Possibilities for improving microbiological parameters
Technological part
- Basic technological principles
- Principles of milk processing on farms and product overview
- Raw materials and their properties
- Raw material selection: key requirements for milk composition
- Hygiene standards and equipment
- Hygiene principles in dairy production
- Basic laboratory equipment needed for quality control
- Practical demonstrations and applications
- Most common technological mistakes and their solutions
- Practical demonstrations of milk processing
- Overview and use of suitable milk cultures for small ruminants
For more information, please contact akce@milcom-as.cz.