Monitoring indices of cow comfort in free-stall-housed dairy herds

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3876-3885

  Cook, N B ^a   Bennett, T B ^a   Nordlund, K V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Comfort index; Lameness; Stall use

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644595705     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(05)73073-3     Document Type: Article

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