Mixing at the beginning of fattening moderates social buffering in beef bulls

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 185-200

  Mounier, Luc ^a,b   Veissier, Isabelle ^a   Andanson, Stephane ^a   Delval, Eric ^a   Boissy, Alain ^a  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^b VETAGRO SUP   (France)

Author keywords

Bulls; Mixing; Reactivity; Social buffering

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CATTLE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MALE; WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 31644440645     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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