Housing system and herd size interactions in Norwegian dairy herds; associations with performance and disease incidence

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Simensen, Egil ^a   Østerås, Olav ^a   Bøe, Knut E ^a   Kielland, Camilla ^a   Ruud, Lars E ^a   Næss, Geir ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECRETION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORWAY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77949478458     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-52-14     Document Type: Article

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