Maternal protective behaviour of German Angus and Simmental beef cattle after parturition and its relation to production traits

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 297-306

  Hoppe, Sebastian ^a,b   Brandt, Horst R ^b   Erhardt, Georg ^b   Gauly, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; German Angus; Maternal protective behaviour; Simmental; Temperament

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATTLE; HERITABILITY; LACTATION; PARTURITION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEAK ROCK; WEANING; WEIGHT;

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EID: 52949147793     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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