Multifactorial testing of enrichment criteria: Pigs 'demand' hygiene and destructibility more than sound

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 218-232

  Bracke, Marc B M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment criteria; Environmental enrichment; Housing; Intensity; Modelling; Pigs; Toys; Validation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HYGIENE; MODELING; PIG;

AGAVE SISALANA; ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 34948861218     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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