Estimation of economic values and financial losses associated with clinical mastitis and somatic cell score in Holstein dairy cattle

Animal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-42

  Sadeghi Sefidmazgi, A ^a   Moradi Shahrbabak, M ^a   Nejati Javaremi, A ^a   Miraei Ashtiani, S R ^a   Amer, P R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Abacus Bio Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

economic value and breeding goal; mastitis; somatic cell score

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 78650542987     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731110001655     Document Type: Article

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