Relationship of production to reproductive performance in Ontario dairy cows: Herd level and individual animal descriptive statistics

Theriogenology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 935-959

  Etherington, W G ^a   Kinsel, M L ^b   Marsh, W E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Data base; Health; Management; Production

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ESTRUS; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030587688     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(96)00259-2     Document Type: Article

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