Milk yield, udder health and reproductive performance in Swedish organic and conventional dairy herds

Journal of Dairy Research

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 402-410

  Fall, Nils ^a   Emanuelson, Ulf ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Organic dairying; Reproductive performance.; Udder health

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; FEMALE; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SWEDEN; TIME; UDDER;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTITIS, BOVINE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 70450284515     PISSN: 00220299     EISSN: 14697629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022029909990045     Document Type: Article

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