Cortisol response of restricted suckling or artificially milk-feeding to a short-term emotional stressor in dairy calves and their dams

Animal Welfare

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-52

  Orihuela, A ^a   Hernandez C ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Cortisol; Dairy cattle; Isolation; Stress; Suckling

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DIET RESTRICTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; MARE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 33846971293     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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