Associations between body condition, rumen fill, diarrhoea and lameness and ruminal acidosis in Australian dairy herds

New Zealand Veterinary Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 323-329

  Bramley, E ^a   Costa, N D ^a   Fulkerson, W J ^b   Lean, I J ^c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Dairy Farm Consulting   (Australia)

^c SBS   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acidosis; dairy cows; lameness; scoring systems

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY COMPOSITION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RUMINANT STOMACH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH JUICE;

ACIDOSIS; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BODY COMPOSITION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RUMEN;

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EID: 84886446011     PISSN: 00480169     EISSN: 11760710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2013.806882     Document Type: Article

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