Evaluating results of the welfare quality multi-criteria evaluation model for classification of dairy cattle welfare at the herd level

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6264-6273

  De Vries, M ^a   Bokkers, E A M ^a   van Schaik, G ^b   Botreau, R ^c   Engel, B ^a   Dijkstra, T ^b   de Boer, I J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^c UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Dairy cattle; Multi criteria evaluation; Welfare Quality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL WELFARE; BODY WEIGHT; BOVINAE; CELL COUNT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THINNESS;

EID: 84884355808     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2012-6129     Document Type: Article

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