The impact of stall and feed rail stocking rate on cow welfare and behavior in automatic milking systems / by Ali Adil Mutlak Witaifi.

"The aim of this thesis was to examine the impact of stocking rate in the stalls and at the feed rail on body condition score, time budgets, lying behavior, lameness (gait scores), and cleanliness of lactating cows ... [milked with an automatic milking system]"--from abstract.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Witaifi, Ali Adil Mutlak (Author, Copyright holder)
Corporate Author: Michigan State University (Degree granting institution)
Other Authors: Siegford, Janice (Degree supervisor)
Language:English
Published: 2014.
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Dissertation Note:
Thesis M.S. Michigan State University. Animal Science 2014.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 108 pages) : illustrations
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook

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