Housing conditions and management practices associated with neonatal lamb mortality in sheep flocks in Norway

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 231-241

  Holmøy, Ingrid H ^a   Kielland, Camilla ^a   Marie Stubsjøen, Solveig ^a   Hektoen, Lisbeth ^b   Waage, Steinar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b Animalia   (Norway)

Author keywords

Housing conditions; Management practices; Neonatal lamb mortality; Questionnaire; Sheep farming; Sheep welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NORWAY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; NORWAY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84868207617     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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