Reliability and feasibility of selected measures concerning resting behaviour for the on-farm welfare assessment in dairy cows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 19-26

  Plesch, Gudrun ^a   Broerkens, Nina ^a   Laister, Simone ^b   Winckler, Christoph ^b   Knierim, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dairy cow housing; On farm welfare assessment; Reliability; Resting behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; CATTLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH RISK; LESION; REGENERATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 77954660082     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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