Phenotypic profiles for body weight, body condition score, energy intake, and energy balance across different parities and concentrate feeding levels

Livestock Science

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Berry, D P ^a   Veerkamp, R F ^b   Dillon, P ^a  

^a Teagasc   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Feeding level; Intake; Lactation profile; Parity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749121602     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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