Short communication: Relationship between competitive success during displacements at an overstocked feed bunk and measures of physiology and behavior in Holstein dairy cattle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4434-4441

  Huzzey, J M ^a   Grant, R J ^b   Overton, T R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b William H Miner Agricultural Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Competition index; Overstocking; Physiology

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CATTLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 84864060187     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2011-5038     Document Type: Article

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