Identification of factors affecting colostrum quality of dairy Lacaune ewes assessed with the Brix refractometer

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Dairy Research

• Publication date

  2017-11-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1017/S002202991700070XPMID 29154741
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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