Using a national dairy database to identify herds with poor welfare

Animal Welfare

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 523-532

  Sandgren, C H ^a   Lindberg, A ^a,b   Keeling, L J ^c  

^a Swedish Dairy Association   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal based; Animal welfare; Epidemiology; National dairy database; Pre collected data; Risk

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELFARE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BODY CONSTITUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DAIRYING; DATA BASE; FERTILITY; HERD; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL DAIRY DATABASE; NONHUMAN; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70449640103     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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