The effects of conditioning to suckling, milking and of calf presence on the release of oxytocin in dairy cows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 235-246

  Tancin, Vladimir ^a,b   Kraetzl, Wolf Dieter ^a   Schams, Dieter ^a   Bruckmaier, Rupert M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cow; Machine milking; Oxytocin; Suckling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035795748     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(01)00113-7     Document Type: Article

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