Milk production and calf rearing practices in the smallholder areas in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1475-1485

  Mapekula, M ^a   Chimonyo, M ^a   Mapiye, C ^a   Dzama, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Communal areas; Indigenous cattle; Milk yield; Suckling; Veld type

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MILK; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; MILK; OBSERVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH AFRICA;

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EID: 70350736140     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-009-9336-5     Document Type: Article

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