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The farmers' influence on calves' behaviour, health and production of a veal unit

2001-02-01

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Although veal production is a highly standardized system, there still remains considerable variability in productivity between units. This variability might be due to the farmers working on these units, through differences in stockmanship, work attitudes or behaviour, which in turn may affect animals' fear responses, productivity and health. A survey was conducted on 50 commercial farms affiliated to the same veal...

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Literature Corpus work: 729c33cb-7236-5d4a-992f-ab5c57f597fc
DOI: 10.1017/s1357729800055600

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