Human contact and feeding as rewards for the lamb's affinity to their stockperson

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 59-73

  Tallet, Céline ^a   Veissier, Isabelle ^a   Boivin, Xavier ^a  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

Author keywords

Affinity; Food conditioning; Handling; Human animal relationship; Sheep; Social attachment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; FEEDING; HANDLING TIME; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 24344450755     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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