Individual consistency of dairy cows' activity in their home pen

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 171-175

  Muller R ^a   Schrader, L ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity; Dairy cow; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 12144276539     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(05)72675-8     Document Type: Article

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