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A Survey of Management Practices That Influence Performance and Welfare of Dairy Calves Reared in Southern Brazil

Here we report dairy calf management practices used by 242 smallholder family farmers in the South of Brazil. Data were collected via a semi-structured questionnaire with farmers, inspection of the production environment and an in-depth interview with a sample of 26 farmers. Herds had an average of...

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Autores principales: Hötzel, Maria J., Longo, Cibele, Balcão, Lucas F., Cardoso, Clarissa S., Costa, João H. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25506692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114995