Post-partum Reproductive Performance of Sanga Cattle in Smallholder Peri-urban Dairy Herds in the Accra Plains of Ghana

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 181-190

  Obese, F Y ^a   Okantah, S A ^a   Oddoye, E O K ^a   Gyawu, P ^b  

^a Animal Research Institute Ghana   (Ghana)

^b University of Development Studies   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Age; Anoestrus; Cattle; Conception rate; Gestation length; Nutrition; Parity; Progesterone; Puberty; Season

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; SANGA;

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GHANA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MILK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUERPERIUM; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TIME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GHANA; MALE; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARITY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033142807     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005121714248     Document Type: Article

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