Welfare impairment of lambs around weaning. Play and other behaviour indicative of affective state
The abrupt and early weaning of intensively kept lambs may have serious animal welfare implications, but relatively little is known about this. Weaning includes the breaking of the mother-young bond and abrupt replacement of milk by solid food, often coinciding with changes in the (social) environme...
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| Format: | Second cycle, A2E |
| Language: | Swedish Inglés |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/7554/ |
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