The relationship between farmers' attitude and behaviour towards calves, and productivity of veal units

Animal Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 313-327

  Lensink, Joop ^a   Boissy, Alain ^a   Veissier, Isabelle ^a  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

Author keywords

Attitude; Behaviour; Handling; Human animal relationship; Veal calves

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346048310     PISSN: 16273583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/animres:2000122     Document Type: Article

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