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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar)
2009-11-01
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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 |