Relation between milk urea content and nitrogen excretion from lactating cows

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 113-115

  Zhai, S W ^a,b   Liu, J X ^a   Ma, Y ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Faeces nitrogen; Milk urea nitrogen; Total nitrogen excretion; Urinary nitrogen

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844464846     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064700510009289     Document Type: Article

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