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Effect of rest, post-rest transport duration, and conditioning on performance, behavioural, and physiological welfare indicators of beef calves

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of conditioning, rest, and post-rest transport duration on welfare indicators of 6–7 mo old beef calves following a 20-h transport. Three hundred and twenty-eight weaned calves (237 ± 29.7 kg of BW) were randomly assigned to a 2 × 2 × 2 nested factoria...

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Autores principales: Meléndez, Daniela M., Marti, Sonia, Haley, Derek B., Schwinghamer, Timothy D., Yang, Xiaohui, Schwartzkopf-Genswein, Karen S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9714911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36454988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278768