Butting by calves, bos taurus, and rate of milk flow

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1545-1551

  Haley, Derek B ^a,b   Rushen, Jeffrey ^a   Duncan, Ian J H ^b   Widowski, Tina M ^b   De Passillé, Anne Marie ^a  

^a SHERBROOKE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW; FLOW STABILITY; MILK PRODUCTION; NUTRITION;

EID: 0032457748     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0912     Document Type: Article

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