Fitting lactation curves of dairy cattle in different types of herds in tunisia

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 309-315

  Rekik, B ^a   Ben Gara, A ^a   Ben Hamouda, M ^a   Hammami, H ^b  

^a Higher School of Agriculture of Mateur University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

^b Ctr Natl d'Amelioration Genet   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Herd type; Incomplete gamma; Lactation curve; Test day record

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; FRIESIA;

EID: 0141561791     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(03)00028-9     Document Type: Article

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