Nutrition, fertility and dairy herd productivity

Cattle Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-32

  Whitaker, D A ^a   Macrae, A I ^a   Burrough, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Dry period nutrition; Energy balance; Fertility; Management; Metabolic profiles

Indexed keywords

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EID: 15444376423     PISSN: 09691251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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