Behavioural changes caused by lameness and lameness treatment in dairy cows housed in automatic milking systems in the UK

Lameness is a detrimental problem for the welfare of cows and farmer profits; it causes changes in cow behaviour, which have direct impact on milk production as cows reduce their overall activity. The main aim of this thesis was to investigate behavioural changes caused by lameness and lameness trea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miguel-Pacheco, Giuliana Giannina
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53643/