Production and behavioural responses of high- and low-yielding dairy cows to different periods of access to grazing or to a maize silage and soyabean meal diet fed indoors

Grass and Forage Science

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 335-346

  Hernandez Mendo, O ^a   Leaver, J D ^b  

^a Collegio de Postgraduados ^*  (Mexico)

^b ROYAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Grazing; Grazing behaviour; Maize silage; Milk yield; Sward height

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; MAIZE; MILK PRODUCTION; SILAGE; SOYBEAN; YIELD RESPONSE;

BOS TAURUS; FRIESIA; GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33845586234     PISSN: 01425242     EISSN: 13652494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2494.2006.00540.x     Document Type: Article

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