Milk yield, residual milk, oxytocin and cortisol release during machine milking in Gir, Gir × Holstein and Holstein cows

Reproduction Nutrition Development

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-85

  Negrão, João Alberto ^a   Marnet, Pierre Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Crossbred; Milking; Oxytocin; Zebu

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; GIR COW; HOLSTEIN COW; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; LACTATION; MILK EJECTION; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; LACTATION; MILK; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMALIA; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 32944461282     PISSN: 09265287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/rnd:2005068     Document Type: Article

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