The effect of feeding enrichment in the milk-feeding stage on the cognition of dairy calves in a T-maze
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cognition, dairy calf, enrichment, learning, t-maze
2017
Effect of pre-partum habituation to milking routine on behaviour and lactation performance of buffalo heifers
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, buffalo heifer, milking, pre-partum habituation
2014
Behavioural and physiological responses of heifer calves to acute stressors: Long-term consistency and relationship with adult reactivity to milking
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behavioural test, dairy cattle, development, fearfulness, hpa axis, individual differences, temperament
2013
Integration into the dairy cow herd: Long-term effects of mother contact during the first twelve weeks of life
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cattle, environment, mother–filial bond, rearing, social behaviour, stress
2012
Determination of a stray voltage threshold in Holstein heifers, influence of predictability and past experience on behavioural and physiological responses
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, cattle, past experience, stray voltage, stress, unpredictability
2011
Competition for feed affects the feeding behavior of growing dairy heifers
Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science
Keywords: competition, dairy heifer, feeding behavior, feeding behaviour
2009
Short communication: Feeding method affects the feeding behavior of growing dairy heifers
Publication/Journal: Journal of Dairy Science
Keywords: component feeding, heifer, sorting, tmr
2009
The effect of different degrees of ‘positive’ human-animal interaction during rearing on the welfare and subsequent production of commercial dairy heifers
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: dairy heifers, milking parlour behaviour, positive human-animal interaction, production, rearing, welfare
2008
Welfare and performance of yearling dairy heifers out-wintered on a wood-chip pad or housed indoors on two levels of nutrition
Publication/Journal: animal
Keywords: behaviour, dairy, heifer, performance, welfare
2008
The effect of positive or negative handling on the behavioural and physiological responses of nonlactating heifers
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: dairy heifer, fear, handling, milk production, stimulus generalisation, stress response
2003