Active feeding control and environmental enrichment with Call-Feeding-Stations

Precision Livestock Farming 2009 - Papers Presented at the 4th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 283-288

  Manteuffel, G ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Auditory stimulation; Management; Pig; Technical equipment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLASSICAL CONDITIONING; COGNITIVE CAPACITY; EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; PIG; TECHNICAL EQUIPMENTS;

MAMMALS; MANAGEMENT; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

FEEDING;

EID: 78549258571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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