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The Influence of Rearing Environment on the Behaviour of Heifers in Cubicles

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A.R. Laven, T. Snell and C.H...

In: Lameness in Ruminants - International Symposium and Conference - Slovenia, 2004 by International Conference on Lameness in Ruminants
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FEB 15, 2004
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The environment encountered by dairy heifers during their rearing period can have a significant impact on the development of hoof-horn (Livesey et al 2000). However, the influence of rearing on hoof-horn may have a behavioural as well as an environmental component. This study was designed to allow the relative importance of these two factors to be established, and to provide significant information on how rearing affects the way heifers adapt to cubicles post-calving ...

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