Order of sheep entry into the milking parlour and its relationship with their milkability

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 58-67

  Villagrá, Arantxa ^a   Balasch, Sebastián ^a   Peris, Cristófol ^a   Torres, Antonio ^a   Fernández, Nemesio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Entrance order; Milking parlour; Sheep

Indexed keywords

DAIRY FARMING; LACTATION; MILK; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 35448970197     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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