Welfare assessment of Japanese dairy farms using the Animal Need Index

Animal Welfare

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-223

  Seo, T ^a   Date, K ^a   Daigo, T ^a   Kashiwamura, F ^a   Sato, S ^b  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal Needs Index; Animal welfare; Assessment index; Cattle; Housing; On farm welfare assessment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAIRY CATTLE; DAIRYING; HERD; JAPANESE; NONHUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 34249016986     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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