Improved milk production efficiency in early lactation dairy cattle with dietary addition of a developmental fibrolytic enzyme additive

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 899-907

  Holtshausen, L ^a   Chung, Y H ^a   Gerardo Cuervo, H ^b   Oba, M ^b   Beauchemin, K A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; Fibrolytic enzyme; Milk production efficiency

Indexed keywords

FOOD ADDITIVE;

ALFALFA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CATTLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY FIBER; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LACTATION; METABOLISM; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECRETION; SILAGE;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOOD ADDITIVES; HORDEUM; LACTATION; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MILK; SILAGE;

BOS; HORDEUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 78751694523     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2010-3573     Document Type: Article

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