Handling cattle raised in close association with people

Livestock Handling and Transport: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 76-89

  Ewbank, Roger ^a   Parker, Miriam ^b  

^a Universities Federation for Animal Welfare   (United Kingdom)

^b Livestockwise   (United Kingdom)

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