Dairy cow sensitivity to short duration electrical currents

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 215-222

  Reinemann, D J ^a   Stetson, L E ^a   Reilly, J P ^a   Laughlin, N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Electrical stimulation; Stray current; Stray voltage; Transient Voltage

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS;

DAIRY COWS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; STRAY CURRENTS; STRAY VOLTAGE;

AGRICULTURE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; MUS;

EID: 0033057250     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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