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The effects of partial storage-feeding and season of calving on the herbage utilization, production, health and reproductive performance of dairy cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

C.J.C. Phillips*
Affiliation:
School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW
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The objective of the trial was to examine the effects of partial storage-feeding (silage fed indoors overnight, grazed herbage during the day) on the herbage utilization, milk production, reproductive performance, and health of spring and autumn-calving dairy cows.

Type
Forage Intake and Utilisation by Dairy Cows
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1988

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