Udder health at a Swedish research farm with both organic and conventional dairy cow management

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 186-195

  Fall, N ^a   Emanuelson, U ^a   Martinsson, K ^a   Jonsson, S ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre SLU   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cattle; Disease; Mastitis; Somatic cell count

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HEALTH FOOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; SWEDEN; UDDER;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HEALTH FOOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTITIS, BOVINE; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 37449022225     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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