Responses to tail docking in calves and heifers

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3287-3296

  Schreiner, D A ^a   Ruegg, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Dairy cows; Stress; Tail docking

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

AMPUTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BLOOD; CATTLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRYING; EOSINOPHIL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIGATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TAIL; WEANING;

AMPUTATION; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATTLE; CONSTRICTION; DAIRYING; EOSINOPHILS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROCORTISONE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; TAIL; WEANING;

EID: 0036988002     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74417-2     Document Type: Article

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