Feeding soyhulls to high-yielding dairy cows increased milk production, but not milking frequency, in an automatic milking system

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2317-2325

  Halachmi, I ^a   Shoshani, E ^b   Solomon, R ^b   Maltz, E ^a   Miron, J ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Individual feeding; Milking frequency; Robotic milking; Starchy pellet

Indexed keywords

BOS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DAIRYING; DIET; EATING; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SECRETION; SOYBEAN; TIME;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DIET; EATING; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOYBEANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67651151168     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2007-0958     Document Type: Article

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