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Abstract:
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(En)
Anti-suckling devices (ASDs) were tested in dairy calves with the aim of using them in pastoral cattle herds to assist weaning. ASDs are designed to allow the calf to feed and drink from the ground or horizontal surface, but a plate or ring-like device hanging from the nose prevents the teat from entering the mouth when suckling is attempted. Six commercially available ASDs and over 20 different homemade ASDs made from plastic and polyvinyl chloride were used in 20, 2 to 7 month-old dairy calves and one c
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