Welfare implications on management strategies for rearing dairy calves: A systematic review. Part 2 - Social management.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Raising a healthy calf up to puberty is essential for optimal farm performance. It is therefore, it is necessary to promote animal welfare from the three spheres during this short period. Social management has been postulated as essential in lowering stress and consequently improving calf welfare during this period. Only the health sphere has been studied for a long time, but more recent studies have recently promoted positive experiences and emotional states from affective states or cognitive judgment and natural living spheres. A systematic review of different management strategies in rearing dairy calves according to the three spheres of animal welfare has been conducted using an electronic search strategy.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Carulla P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10150551 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature