
Impact of Early Lactation Somatic Cell Count in Heifers on Milk Yield Over the First Lactation
Keywords: dairy heifer; early lactation; milk yield; somatic cell count; LnSCC; natural log-transformed SCC; LnSCCel; natural log-transformed SCCel; MY; milk yield at test-day (kg); SCCel; SCC in early lactation (between 5 and 14 DIM);