Monitoring the nutritional and reproductive state of dairy cows through the presence of urea in milk

The effects of farm, parity (PO) and month of parturition on milk production, percentage of fat and protein, somatic cell count (SCC), and milk urea nitrogen (MUN) concentration were assessed on four specialized dairy farms using 120 cows. Also, the effects of MUN on gestation rate (GR) and artifici...

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Main Authors: Paula Adriana Grande, Geraldo Tadeu dos Santos, Hilton Ribeiro, Júlio César Damasceno, Claudete Regina Alcalde, Orlando Rus Barbosa, José Augusto Horst, Fabio Seiji dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2009-11-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000700032