Identifying risk factors for poor hind limb cleanliness in Danish loose-housed dairy cows

Animal

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1613-1619

  Nielsen, B H ^a   Thomsen, P T ^a   Sorensen J T ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

cleanliness; dairy cow; hooves

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 80053067836     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731111000905     Document Type: Article

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