On-farm welfare and carcass fat score of bulls at slaughter

Livestock Science

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 159-166

  Herva, Tuomas ^a   Huuskonen, Arto ^b   Virtala, Anna Maija ^c   Peltoniemi, Olli ^c  

^a Atria Ltd   (Finland)

^b ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Beef production; Bulls; Carcass fat content; Cohort study; Daily gain

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79955482688     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2010.12.019     Document Type: Article

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