Cow performance, adrenal function, and milk quality under varying levels of competition
Twelve dairy cows were used to determine behavior with varying numbers of free stalls and length of feed trough. A least squares procedure, which regressed for numbers of observations, was adapted for obtaining dominance values. Available free stalls were 1.0, .83, .67, .50, .33 per cow. With 1.0 fr...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38669 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06222010-020315/ |