Milk losses associated with somatic cell counts per breed, parity and stage of lactation in Canadian dairy cattle

Livestock Science

Volumn 117, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 225-232

  Durr J W ^a   Cue, R I ^b   Monardes, H G ^b   Moro Mendez J ^b   Wade, K M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSO FUNDO   (Brazil)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ayrshire; Holstein; Mastitis; Segmented regression; Test day

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 48749127639     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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