The impact of stall and feed rail stocking rate on cow welfare and behavior in automatic milking systems
"The aim of this thesis was to examine the impact of stocking rate in the stalls and at the feed rail on body condition score, time budgets, lying behavior, lameness (gait scores), and cleanliness of lactating cows ... [milked with an automatic milking system]"--from abstract.
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Copyright Status
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- Material Type
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Theses
- Authors
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Witaifi, Ali Adil Mutlak
- Thesis Advisors
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Siegford, Janice
- Committee Members
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Beede, David
Swanson, Janice
Grooms, Daniel
- Date Published
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2014
- Subjects
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Animal welfare
Dairy cattle--Behavior
Dairy cattle--Feeding and feeds
Dairy cattle--Health
Dairy farmers
- Program of Study
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Animal Science - Master of Science
- Degree Level
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Masters
- Language
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English
- Pages
- xii, 108 pages
- ISBN
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9781321442342
1321442343
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- https://doi.org/doi:10.25335/gjgw-c672