A review of the feeding-health-production complex in a dairy herd

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-129

  Østergaard, Søren ^a   Sørensen, Jan Tind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cattle feeding and nutrition; Feeding health production complex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BREEDING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FEVER; KETOACIDOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RUMINANT STOMACH;

ABOMASUM; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FEVER; KETOSIS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0347626689     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(98)00082-8     Document Type: Article

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