Comparison of two variants of the Fick principle for estimation of mammary blood flow in dairy cows fed two levels of dry matter intake

Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-63

  Pacheco Rios, D ^a,b   Mackenzie, D D S ^b   McNabb, W C ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diary cows; Fick principle; Mammary blood flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034147759     PISSN: 00083984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/A00-035     Document Type: Article

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