Investigations on the water intake of lactating dairy cows

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 90, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 117-121

  Meyer, Ulrich ^a   Everinghoff, Matthias ^a   Gädeken, Dieter ^a   Flachowsky, Gerhard ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Water intake

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 19544374519     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livprodsci.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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