On-farm welfare assessment systems: What are the recording costs?

Animal Welfare

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-239

  Sørensen, Jantind T ^a   Rousing, T ^a   Moller S H ^a   Bonde, M ^a   Hegelund, L ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Labour costs; On farm welfare assessment systems; Recordings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; AUTOMATION; CATTLE FARMING; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DAIRY CATTLE; EGG PRODUCTION; HERD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MILK EJECTION; MILK PRODUCTION; MINK; PIG FARMING; RECORDING; SAMPLE SIZE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; MUSTELA; SUIDAE;

EID: 34249046734     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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