Technical note: The use of a telemetric system to continuously monitor ruminal temperature and to predict ruminal pH in cattle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5697-5701

  Alzahal, O ^a   Steele, M A ^a   Valdes, E V ^b   McBride, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b DISNEY S ANIMAL KINGDOM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ruminal pH; Ruminal temperature; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 70350266100     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2220     Document Type: Article

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