The development of an epidemiologically based On-Farm welfare assessment system for use with dairy cows

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica A: Animal Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue , 2001, Pages 73-77

  Waiblinger, Susanne ^a   Knierim, Ute ^b   Winckler, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cattle; Epidemiology; Husbandry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035653193     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/090647001316923108     Document Type: Article

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