Survey of Calf and Heifer Housing on Pennsylvania Dairy Farms
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An advisory tool to improve management practices affecting calf and heifer welfare on dairy farms.
We developed an advisory tool addressing 10 critical areas of calf and heifer management, including calving management, care to newborn calves and painful procedures, colostrum management, cow-calf separation, calf feeding, weaning, calf housing, heifer feeding, heifer housing, and general monitoring. Targets and indicators for each critical area were validated by a panel of experts and maximum...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Dairy Science
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0022-0302
DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(87)80237-0