Dairy cattle's choice of handling treatments in a Y-maze

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-107

  Pajor, E A ^a,b   Rushen, J ^a   De Passille A M B ^a  

^a SHERBROOKE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aversion; Choice tests; Dairy cattle; Fear; Handling; Welfare

Indexed keywords

CATTLE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0037413898     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00119-3     Document Type: Article

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