Competitive behaviour of dairy cows at a concentrate self-feeder

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 98-105

  Katainen, Anu ^a   Norring, Marianna ^a   Manninen, Emmi ^a   Laine, Johanna ^a   Orava, Tarja ^a   Kuoppala, Kaisa ^b   Saloniemi, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Automatic feeding; Butting; Disturbance

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 28844481989     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064700500239453     Document Type: Article

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