Strategies to improve fertility of high yielding dairy farms: Management of the dry period

Theriogenology

Volumn 68, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Grummer, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Dry period; Energy balance; Fertility; Management

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DIET; DISASTER; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DIET; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PARTURITION; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 34547125968     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2007.04.031     Document Type: Article

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