An Independent Evaluation of a Lactating Dairy Cow Model
1. Milk Production and Composition, Body Weight, and Body Condition Score
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro20015245Keywords:
lactating cow, mechanistic model, data setAbstract
A comprehensive mechanistic model of the lactating cow has been described by Baldwin and coworkers (Baldwin, 1995). Over the past year, we have undertaken enhancements to that model in an attempt to address deficiencies. Such work has led to significantly better fits to a reference data set (Hanigan et al, J Dairy Sci, 2001). The work described herein represents a challenge of that model with independent data.
