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Social housing improves dairy calves' performance in a competition test

On most dairy farms, calves are housed individually until weaning. However, depriving calves of an early social environment impairs behavioral development. We studied the effect of early-life social housing on calves' competitive skills. In this study, Holstein heifers were pseudorandomly assig...

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Autores principales: Suchon, Malina, Ede, Thomas, Vandresen, Bianca, von Keyserlingk, Marina A.G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10692294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38045900
http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jdsc.2023-0378