The use of a radiotelemetric ruminal bolus to detect body temperature changes in lactating dairy cattle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3568-3574

  AlZahal, O ^a   AlZahal, H ^a   Steele, M A ^a   Van Schaik, ^a   Kyriazakis, I ^a   Duffield, T F ^b   McBride, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Dairy cow; Radiotelemetry; Subacute ruminal acidosis

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ACIDOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FEMALE; FEVER; LACTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RUMINANT STOMACH; STOMACH DISEASE; TELEMETRY;

ACIDOSIS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DIET; FEMALE; FEVER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUMEN; STOMACH DISEASES; TELEMETRY;

BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79959360237     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2010-3944     Document Type: Article

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