Energy requirements for pregnant dairy cows.

This study aimed to estimate energy requirements of pregnant Holstein × Gyr cows. Different planes of nutrition were established by two feeding regimens: ad libitum or maintenance. Sixty-two nonlactating cows with average body weight of 480 ± 10.1 kg and an age of 5 ± 0.5 years were used. Cows were...

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Main Authors: Anna Luiza Lacerda Sguizzato, Marcos Inácio Marcondes, Jan Dijkstra, Sebastião de Campos Valadares Filho, Mariana Magalhães Campos, Fernanda Samarini Machado, Breno Castro Silva, Polyana Pizzi Rotta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235619