Colostrum Management: Keeping Beef Calves Alive and Performing

Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Rogers, Glenn M ^a,b   Capucille, Dawn J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University ^*  (United States)

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