Loser cows in Danish dairy herds: Risk factors

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 136-154

  Thomsen, Peter T ^a   Østergaard, Søren ^a   Houe, Hans ^b   Sørensen, Jan Tind ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Correspondence analysis; Logistic regression; Loser cow; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; DAIRYING; DENMARK; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PARITY; PATHOLOGY; POACEAE; PREGNANCY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELL COUNT; DAIRYING; DENMARK; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MILK; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; POACEAE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33847351555     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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