Using post-grazing sward height to impose dietary restrictions of varying duration in early lactation: Its effects on spring-calving dairy cow production

Animal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 592-603

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c PEGASE   (France)

Author keywords

carryover effect; dairy cow; early lactation; feeding regime; post grazing sward height

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BOVINE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; METABOLISM; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; PROCEDURES; SEASON; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; POACEAE; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84924933627     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731114002948     Document Type: Article

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