Housing and management factors associated with indicators of dairy cattle welfare

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 80-92

  de Vries, M ^a   Bokkers, E A M ^a   van Reenen, C G ^a   Engel, B ^a   van Schaik, G ^b   Dijkstra, T ^b   de Boer, I J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Dairy cattle; Environment; Housing; Management; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; BOVINE; BUILDING; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOOT DISEASES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VETERINARY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; FOOT DISEASES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84916912324     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.11.016     Document Type: Article

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