Estimating the costs of rearing young dairy cattle in the Netherlands using a simulation model that accounts for uncertainty related to diseases

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 214-224

  Mohd Nor, N ^a,b   Steeneveld, W ^c   Mourits, M C M ^c   Hogeveen, H ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calf diseases; Economics; Simulation model; Young dairy cattle rearing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIARRHEA; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BOVINE RESPIRATORY DISEASE COMPLEX; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 84865444927     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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