Effects of behaviour on the development of claw lesions in early lactation dairy cows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 16-22

  Dippel, Sabine ^a   Tucker, Cassandra B ^b   Winckler, Christoph ^a   Weary, Daniel M ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cow comfort; Lameness; Sole haemorrhage; Standing time; White line separation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONCRETE; DAIRY FARMING; LESION; UNGULATE;

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EID: 80052096374     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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