An evaluation of milk recording, somatic cell counts and reproductive performance in a large cohort of dairy herds in England and Wales

Milk recording consists in the regular, usually monthly, collection of a milk sample from all the lactating cows of a dairy herd. A large sample of milk recording data collected in England and Wales between 2004 and 2006 was used in this thesis. A sample of 8,211,988 recordings in 2,128 herds, repre...

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Main Author: Madouasse, Aurélien
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11203/