Assessing the animals' relationship to humans in tied dairy cows: Between-experimenter repeatability of measuring avoidance reactions

Animal Welfare

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-146

  Waiblinger, Susanne ^a   Mulleder C ^a   Schmied, C ^a   Dembele, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b IPR/IFRA Bamako   (Mali)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Cattle; Human animal relationship; On farm assessment; Repeatability; Tie stall

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; AUSTRIA; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DAIRY CATTLE; FARMING SYSTEM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 34249011824     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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