Differences in voluntary cow traffic between holstein and illawarra breeds of dairy cattle in a pasture-based automatic milking system

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 587-591

  Clark, C E F ^a   Kwinten, N B P ^b   Van Gastel, D A J M ^b   Kerrisk, K L ^a   Lyons, N A ^a   Garcia, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Applied Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic Milking System; Breed; Voluntary Cow Traffic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897694578     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: 19765517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2013.13435     Document Type: Article

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