Covariance among milking frequency, milk yield, and milk composition from automatically milked cows

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5381-5392

  Lovendahl P ^a   Chagunda, M G G ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic milking; Correlation; Repeatability; Variance heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

FAT; MILK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FATS; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; MILK PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80054888598     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2010-3589     Document Type: Article

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