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Descriptive study for culling and mortality in five high-producing Spanish dairy cattle farms (2006–2016)

BACKGROUND: High turnover rate in dairy farms due to culling and mortality is associated with poor animal welfare, an increase in production costs and lower economic benefits for the dairy farm. Understanding cow elimination better would help to formulate specific prevention measures and improve the...

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Autores principales: Armengol, Ramon, Fraile, Lorenzo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6064081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30055624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-018-0399-z