Food neophobia, feeding and sorting behaviour in dairy calves

Standard practice within the dairy industry is to separate calves from the dam immediately after birth and raise calves in individual pens during the milk-feeding period with little or no contact with conspecifics. I reviewed empirical work (Chapter 2) on the social development of calves, the effect...

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Main Author: Costa, Joao Henrique Cardoso
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55059