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ArticleTranslational animal science2019

Understanding natural behavior to improve dairy goat (

Gosia Zobel, Heather W Neave, Jim Webster

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Article in Translational animal science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. Influence of Housing and Management on Claw Health in Swiss Dairy Goats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gosia ZobelAnimal Welfare Team, AgResearch Limited, Hamilton, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-9883-9503
Heather W NeaveAnimal Welfare Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Jim WebsterAnimal Welfare Team, AgResearch Limited, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public interest is stimulating farming industries to improve animal welfare in production systems. Indoor housing of ruminants has received scrutiny because of perceived intensiveness and lack of naturalness. Animal welfare has traditionally focused on health benefits (e.g., bedding management and reducing disease) and reducing negative experiences (e.g., painful husbandry practices). Recent attention to animals having "a life worth living" extends expectations to provide increased care and opportunities for positive experiences and natural behaviors. Although not all natural behaviors necessarily contribute to improved welfare, we present evidence for why many are important, and for how they can be promoted in commercial systems. Worldwide, commercial dairy goats (

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behavior ecologybrowsingclimbinghousingwelfare

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PMID32704793
PMCPMC7200440

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