Monitoring cow comfort and rumen health indices in a cubicle-housed herd with an automatic milking system: a repeated measures approach

BACKGROUND: Cow rumination and lying behaviour are potentially useful and interrelated indicators of cow health and welfare but there is conflicting evidence about how reliable these measures are. The objective of this study was to quantify the variation of indices of cow comfort and rumen health in...

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Autores principales: Vanhoudt, Arne, van Winden, Steven, Fishwick, John C., Bell, Nicholas J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26075057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13620-015-0040-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26075057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13620-015-0040-7

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