The effects of some factors associated with transportation on the behavioural and physiological reactions of farmed red beer

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 179-189

  Grigor, P N ^a   Goddard, P J ^a   Cockram, M S ^b   Rennie, S C ^c   Macdonald, A J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feeding and nutrition; Physiology; Red deer; Space allowance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030988130     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(96)01118-5     Document Type: Article

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