Modeling the lactation curve for test-day milk yield in Murciano-Granadina goats

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-41

  Fernandez C ^a   Sanchez A ^b   Garces C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CEU CARDENAL HERRERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Goat; Lactation curve; Milk production; Model fitting

Indexed keywords

CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 0036794628     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4488(02)00179-7     Document Type: Article

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