Subclinical Laminitis in Dairy Cattle: Maintaining Healthy Hoof Horns

Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2000, Pages

  Hoblet, Kent ^a,e   Weiss, William ^a,d   Smilie, Richard ^b   Midla, Lowell ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Clover Farm Veterinary Hospital ^*

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Amer Coll of Vet Prev Medicine   (United States)

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