E-Cow: An animal model that predicts herbage intake, milk yield and live weight change in dairy cows grazing temperate pastures, with and without supplementary feeding

Animal

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 980-993

  Baudracco, J ^a,b   Lopez Villalobos, N ^a   Holmes, C W ^a   Comeron, E A ^c   MacDonald, K A ^d   Barry, T N ^a   Friggens, N C ^e  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^d DAIRYNZ   (New Zealand)

^e INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

body lipid reserves; dairy cow; grazing; milk yield; model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; VALIDATION STUDY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; FRIESIA; LOLIUM;

EID: 84860702719     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731111002370     Document Type: Article

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