Management practices from questionnaire surveys in herds with very low somatic cell score through a national mastitis program in France

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3989-3999

  Barnouin, J ^a   Chassagne, M ^a   Bazin, S ^b   Boichard, D ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b France Contrôle Laitier   (France)

^c Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Management practice; Somatic cell score

Indexed keywords

EID: 8344233522     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(04)73539-0     Document Type: Article

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