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The effect of age when group housed and other management factors on playing and non-nutritive sucking behaviour in dairy calves: a cross sectional observational study

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate if calves’ play behaviour and non-nutritive sucking behaviour, as indirect measures of welfare status, are associated with the age of the calf when group housed, age when observed, age difference within the group, pen size, milk feeding system, cu...

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Autores principales: Reipurth, Masja, Klausen, Stephanie Kruuse, Denwood, Matthew, Forkman, Björn, Houe, Hans
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7678188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33213495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-020-00562-y