Significance of pregnancy rates to successive services to assess the fertility pattern of individual dairy herds

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-108

  Dhaliwal, G S ^a,b   Murray, R D ^a   Downham, D Y ^a   Dobson, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Calving interval; Cattle fertility; Inter service interval; Milk production; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005979138     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4320(95)01440-3     Document Type: Article

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