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Cows are highly motivated to access a grooming substrate

In natural environments, cattle use trees and other abrasive surfaces to scratch and groom themselves. Modern indoor dairy cattle housing systems often lack appropriate grooming substrates, restricting the animals' ability to groom. We assessed the motivation of dairy cows to access an automate...

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Autores principales: McConnachie, Emilie, Smid, Anne Marieke C., Thompson, Alexander J., Weary, Daniel M., Gaworski, Marek A., von Keyserlingk, Marina A. G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30089661
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0303