Behaviour and claw health in tied dairy cows with varying access to exercise in an outdoor paddock

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-16

  Loberg, Jenny ^a   Telezhenko, Evgenij ^a   Bergsten, Christer ^a   Lidfors, Lena ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Claw conformation; Claw lesions; Dairy cows; Exercise; Lying down

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CATTLE;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 4644350662     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2004.04.009     Document Type: Article

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