Lactation responses of dairy cows to whole-crop wheat or ryegrass silages

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 153-160

  Fonseca, A J M ^a   Cabrita, A R J ^a   Nogueira, C S S ^a   Melo, D S P ^a   Lopes, Z M C ^b   Abreu, J M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b Direcao Reg Agric Do Entre D

Author keywords

Dairy cow; Milk production; Ryegrass silage; Whole crop wheat silage

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 10644265409     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2004.10.006     Document Type: Article

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