On the relationship between lactational performance and health: Is it yield or metabolic imbalance that cause production diseases in dairy cattle? A position paper

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 277-308

  Ingvartsen, K L ^a   Dewhurst, R J ^b   Friggens, N C ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immune competence; Indicators; Individual feeding strategies; Individual variation; Lactational performance; Metabolic imbalance; Physiological status; Production diseases

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0141450232     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(03)00110-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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