Reliability and inter-test relationship of tests for on-farm assessment of dairy cows' relationship to humans

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 37-53

  Windschnurer, Ines ^a   Schmied, Claudia ^a   Boivin, Xavier ^b   Waiblinger, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Cattle; Human animal relationship; Tests; Welfare

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; WELFARE IMPACT;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 51649099768     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.01.017     Document Type: Article

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