The effect of group size on health and growth rate of Swedish dairy calves housed in pens with automatic milk-feeders

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-53

  Svensson, C ^a   Liberg, P ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automatic milk feeder; Clinical respiratory tract disease; Dairy calf; Diarrhoea; Group size; Housing; Morbidity

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SUCKLING; SWEDEN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CATTLE; FEMALE; HAPTOGLOBINS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31344448861     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2005.08.021     Document Type: Article

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