Review: Fertility Factors in High Producing Dairy Cows—Which Ones Are Really Important?

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 129-138

  Senger, P L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dairy; Fertility Factors; Management; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007602302     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31613-2     Document Type: Review

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