Relationship between water intake, dry matter intake and daily milk yield on a German research farm

Livestock Science

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-104

  Kramer, E ^a   Stamer, E ^b   Mahlkow, K ^c   Lupping W ^c   Krieter, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b TiDa Tier und Daten GmbH   (Germany)

^c Chamber of Agriculture Schleswig Holstein   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlation; Dairy cow; Dry matter intake; Fixed Regression; Random Regression; Water intake

Indexed keywords

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EID: 41549106313     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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