Direct and carryover effect of post-grazing sward height on total lactation dairy cow performance

Animal

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1390-1400

  Ganche, E ^a,b   Delaby, L ^c   O'Donovan, M ^a   Boland, T M ^b   Kennedy, E ^a  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c PEGASE   (France)

Author keywords

carryover; dairy cow; early lactation; post grazing height

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; SEASONS;

EID: 84880221795     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731113000451     Document Type: Article

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