The Dungannon milk herd consists of unidentified, largely hairless livestock at a holding on the Ballygawley road outside Dungannon, County Tyrone. Its milk enters the bulk supply for two creameries.[1]
Anatomy and yield
The animals are about Friesian height but have no udders. Milking cups attach to two rows of fourteen healed openings running beneath the jaw and down the throat. They require six milkings daily; after about five hours the openings weep and the animals vocalise continuously. Each produces roughly forty-six litres a day.
Milk properties
Ordinary fat and protein tests fall within accepted ranges, but the milk contains an unclassified casein variant. A sample in an open flask at room temperature remained at pH 6.7 for nine weeks without detectable growth, while an ordinary milk control spoiled within three days.
Supply and population
The casein signature has appeared in both creameries’ tanker samples since 2019 and entered milk, butter and milk powder without a recorded recall. The caption describes this as five years of blending; that duration is retained without converting it into a publication-year chronology. The holding has no herd number, registered births or bull. Its count rose from forty-one to forty-seven after summer.
References
- Nanophage Research — Dungannon milk herd Primary post
Original account caption inspected directly on September 14th, 2026.