Effects of mother versus artificial rearing during the first 12 weeks of life on challenge responses of dairy cows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

  Wagner, Kathrin ^a,b   Seitner, Daniel ^a   Barth, Kerstin ^b   Palme, Rupert ^a   Futschik, Andreas ^c   Waiblinger, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Development; Isolation; Novel object; Rearing; Social environment; Stress

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; FEEDING; MATERNAL CARE; REARING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WALKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84922819320     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2014.12.010     Document Type: Article

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