Effect of milk production on the incidence of double ovulation in dairy cows

Theriogenology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1133-1143

  Fricke, P M ^a   Wiltbank, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Double Ovulation; Ovarian Cysts; Ovsynch; Twinning

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN ACETATE; MILK; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA TROMETAMOL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYST; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SECRETION; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWINS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DINOPROST; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; MILK; OVARIAN CYSTS; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; TWINS;

EID: 0033231560     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00205-8     Document Type: Article

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