Article
On the relationship between lactational performance and health: is it yield or metabolic imbalance that cause production diseases in dairy cattle? A position paper
2003-10-01
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this review was to explore the relationship between lactational performance and health. We focused on lactational incidence rates (LIR) of the production diseases that are of economic importance to the dairy industry. Based on a review of 11 epidemiological and 14 genetic studies we found little evidence that high yielding cows have increased risk of dystocia, retained placenta, metritis and left-...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ec9242d9-e37a-585d-ae45-61c94ccc07a6
- DOI
- 10.1016/s0301-6226(03)00110-6
