The level of social contact affects social behaviour in pre-weaned dairy calves

Morbidity in Swedish dairy calves from birth to 90 days of age and individual calf-level risk factors for infectious diseases

Catarina Svensson, Karin Lundborg, Ulf Emanuelson et al. · Preventive Veterinary Medicine · 2003 · 404 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Dairy Science, Infectious Diseases +16

Rewarding properties of social interactions in adolescent and adult male and female rats: Impact of social versus isolate housing of subjects and partners

Lewis A. Douglas, Elena I. Varlinskaya, Linda P. Spear · Developmental Psychobiology · 2004 · 384 citations

Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience +15

Effects of Pair Versus Individual Housing on the Behavior and Performance of Dairy Calves

Beverly Chua, E. W. C. Coenen, J. van Delen et al. · Journal of Dairy Science · 2002 · 215 citations · Full text

Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Dairy Science +14

Play behaviour in dairy calves kept in pens: the effect of social contact and space allowance

Margit Bak Jensen, K. Vestergaard, Christian Krohn · Applied Animal Behaviour Science · 1998 · 201 citations

Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Dairy Science +16

The effect of group size on health and growth rate of Swedish dairy calves housed in pens with automatic milk-feeders

C. Svensson, Per Liberg · Preventive Veterinary Medicine · 2005 · 201 citations

Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Dairy Science +17