Factors influencing pregnancy rate and late embryonic loss in dairy cattle

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-58

  Gabor G ^a   Toth F ^a   Ozsvari L ^a   Abonyi Toth Zs ^a   Sasser, R G ^b  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Biotracking LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FAT; MILK PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLOOD; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY TEST; RISK FACTOR; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREEDING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FATS; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LACTATION; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY TESTS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS;

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EID: 38149117177     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00854.x     Document Type: Article

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