Contact with cows during the young age increases social competence and lowers the cardiac stress reaction in dairy calves

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• 作者：Cornelia Buchli^a ; ^b ; ^{cornelia.buchli@gmail.com} ; Alice Raselli^a ; Rupert Bruckmaier^c ; Edna Hillmann^a ; ^{edna-hillmann@ethz.ch}
• 关键词：Dairy calves ; Alternative calf rearing ; Dam rearing ; Isolation ; Stress reactivity ; Confrontation
• 刊名：Applied Animal Behaviour Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：187
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-7
• 全文大小：598 K
• 卷排序：187

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Social behaviour and stress reactivity were compared in calves reared with cow-contact and calves reared with peer-contact only. Social Isolation and confrontation (with an adult cow) tests were conducted on 29 dairy farms in Switzerland and Germany. ‘Cow-contact’ calves show more adaptive social behaviour (submission during confrontation) than calves housed in peer groups. Calves reared with cow-contact show lowered cardiac response to isolation compared to calves reared with peer-contact only. The rearing system did not affect the behavioural and cortisol stress response.