RICHPIG: A semantic model to assess enrichment materials for pigs

Animal Welfare

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 289-304

  Bracke, Marc B M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behaviour; Decision support system; Environmental enrichment; Pigs; Semantic modelling

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PIG FARMING; RATING SCALE; RICHPIG; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 44949235310     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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