The effect of respiratory disease and a preventative antibiotic treatment on growth, survival, age at first calving, and milk production of dairy heifers

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4950-4960

  Stanton, A L ^a   Kelton, D F ^a   LeBlanc, S J ^a   Wormuth, J ^b   Leslie, K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b CY Heifer Farm   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine respiratory disease complex; Dairy heifer; Growth; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DISACCHARIDE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; OXYTETRACYCLINE; TULATHROMYCIN;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BOVINE RESPIRATORY DISEASE COMPLEX; CATTLE; DISACCHARIDES; FEMALE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; LACTATION; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 84865321399     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2011-5067     Document Type: Article

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