Relationships between culling criteria in dairy herds and farmers' management styles

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 327-342

  Beaudeau, F ^a,b   Van Der Ploeg, J D ^b   Boileau, B ^a   Seegers, H ^a   Noordhuizen, J P T M ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Culling; Dairy cows; Management styles

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0012726603     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-5877(95)00509-9     Document Type: Article

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