Designing better water troughs: Dairy cows prefer and drink more from larger troughs

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 185-193

  Pinheiro MacHado Filho, L C ^a   Teixeira, D L ^a   Weary, D M ^b   Keyserlingk, M A G Von ^b   Hotzel M J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Drinking behaviour; Preference test; Water intake; Water trough

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CATTLE; DRINKING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 7044246231     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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