Economic weights for major milk constituents of Manchega dairy ewes

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3303-3309

  Ramon M ^a   Legarra, A ^b   Ugarte, E ^c   Garde, J J ^a   Perez Guzman M D ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^d CERSYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Economic weight; Milk composition; Sheep

Indexed keywords

FAT; MILK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COST; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; INCOME; MILK; SHEEP;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; FATS; FEMALE; INCOME; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77953892565     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2787     Document Type: Article

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