Lactating dairy cows adapt quickly to being milked by an automatic milking system

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1575-1584

  Jacobs, J A ^a   Siegford, J M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation rate; Dairy cow; Robotic milking; Stress related behavior

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; LACTATION; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SECRETION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857269244     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2011-4710     Document Type: Article

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