Measures to improve dairy cow foot health: Consequences for farmer income and dairy cow welfare

Animal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 167-175

  Bruijnis, M R N ^a   H Hogeveen, ^a   Stassen, E N ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

costs; dairy cow welfare; foot disorder; intervention measure; modeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 84870933798     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731112001383     Document Type: Article

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