Associations of herd- and cow-level factors, cow lying behavior, and risk of elevated somatic cell count in free-stall housed lactating dairy cows

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 245-255

  Watters, M E Alexandrea ^a   Meijer, Karin M A ^a   Barkema, Herman W ^b   Leslie, Kenneth E ^a   von Keyserlingk, Marina A G ^c   DeVries, Trevor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; Free stall; Lying behavior; Somatic cell count

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; FRIESIA;

EID: 84881311674     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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