Herd- and cow-level prevalence of foot lesions in ontario dairy cattle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3888-3895

  Cramer, G ^a   Lissemore, K D ^a   Guard, C L ^b   Leslie, K E ^a   Kelton, D F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Foot lesion; Free stall; Prevalence; Tie stall

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 54049136058     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2008-1135     Document Type: Article

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