Analysis of survival in dairy cows with supplementary data on type scores and housing systems from a region of northwest Germany

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1531-1541

  Buenger, A ^a,c   Ducrocq, V ^b   Swalve, H H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c Vereinigte Informationssysteme Tierhaltung wV VIT   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Housing systems; Survival analysis; Type traits

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUILDING; CATTLE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTOLOGY; LACTATION; LONGEVITY; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TIME; UDDER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; GERMANY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LACTATION; LONGEVITY; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035378489     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(01)70187-7     Document Type: Article

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