Observations on the responses of feedlot cattle to attempted environmental enrichment
Twenty-four 9-mo-old Hereford steers were randomly divided into three groups of eight to determine if the steers would react to enrichment objects, and if one object would be used more than the others. The experiment design was a 3 × 3 Latin square consisting of three treatments, three groups and th...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Canadian journal of animal science 1995-12, Vol.75 (4), p.631-632 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Twenty-four 9-mo-old Hereford steers were randomly divided into three groups of eight to determine if the steers would react to enrichment objects, and if one object would be used more than the others. The experiment design was a 3 × 3 Latin square consisting of three treatments, three groups and three periods of 2 wk. The results indicated that the steers did react (P |
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| ISSN: | 0008-3984 1918-1825 |
| DOI: | 10.4141/cjas95-093 |