Milking of Brown Swiss and Austrian Simmental cows in a herringbone parlour or an automatic milking unit

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 209-225

  Hagen, K ^a,b   Lexer, D ^a   Palme, R ^a   Troxler, J ^a   Waiblinger, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic milking; Behaviour; Dairy cattle; Heart rate; Milk cortisol; Robotic milking; Stress; Voluntary milking; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; BEHAVIOR; DAIRY FARMING; IMMUNOASSAY;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 4344650181     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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