Lactational anoestrus in cattle: Lessons from the suckled beef cow

Cattle Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-31

  Sinclair, K D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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