Interactions between profit and welfare on extensive sheep farms

Animal Welfare

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 57-64

  Stott, A W ^a   Vosough Ahmadi, B ^a   Dwyer, C M ^a   Kupiec, B ^a   Morgan Davies, C ^a   Milne, C E ^a   Ringrose, S ^a   Goddard, P ^b   Phillips, K ^c   Waterhouse, A ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Economics; Linear programming; Profit; Service quality modelling; Sheep

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EWE; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABOR; LAMB; NONHUMAN; POLICY; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFIT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SHEEP FARMING; UNITED KINGDOM; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84860322786     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7120/096272812X13345905673683     Document Type: Article

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