Oxytocin release, milk ejection and milk removal in a multi-box automatic milking system

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 139-147

  Mačuhová, Juliana ^a   Tančin, Vladimír ^a,b   Bruckmaier, Rupert M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Automatic milking; Milk flow; Oxytocin; Udder preparation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038285009     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(02)00304-4     Document Type: Article

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