Dairy cows produce less milk and modify their behaviour during the transition between tie-stall to free-stall

Animals

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Broucek, Jan ^a   Uhrincat, Michal ^a   Mihina, Stefan ^b   Soch, Miloslav ^c   Mrekajova, Andrea ^a   Hanus, Anton ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Slovakia)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN NITRA   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Dairy cow; Housing; Milk yield; Milking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014834045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20762615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ani7030016     Document Type: Article

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