Changes in herd health, fertility and production under roughage based feeding conditions with reduced concentrate input in Swiss organic dairy herds

Livestock Science

Volumn 168, Issue , 2014, Pages 159-167

  Ivemeyer, S ^a   Walkenhorst, M ^a   Holinger, M ^a   Maeschli, A ^a   Klocke, P ^a,b   Spengler Neff, A ^a   Staehli, P ^a   Krieger, M ^a,c   Notz, C ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

^b Bovicare   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concentrate feeding; Dairy cattle; Fertility; Health; Milk yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027958248     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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