Dairy calf housing systems across Europe and risk for calf infectious diseases

Animal

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1588-1596

  Marce C ^a,b   Guatteo, R ^a   Bareille, N ^a   Fourichon, C ^a  

^a LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calf diseases; calf housing; dairy herd; Europe; qualitative risk assessment

Indexed keywords

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EID: 77957363666     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731110000650     Document Type: Article

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