Effects of cleaning duration and water temperature on oxytocin release and milk removal in an automatic milking system

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4163-4169

  Dzidic, A ^a,b   Macuhova, J ^a   Bruckmaier, R M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Automatic milking; Milk ejection; Milking characteristic; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044224324     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(04)73559-6     Document Type: Article

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