Employee Management and Animal Care: A Comparative Ethnography of Two Large-Scale Dairy Farms in China

Employee Management and Animal Care: A Comparative Ethnography of Two Large-Scale Dairy Farms in China

Farm management can directly and indirectly affect animal care. We explored how farm management affected animal care on two large dairy farms in China (anonymized as Farm A and Farm B). We used a mini-ethnographic case study design whereby the first author lived for 38 days on Farm A and 23 days on...

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Main Authors: Maria Chen, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk, Sabina Magliocco, Daniel M. Weary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Animals
Subjects:
animal welfare
farm culture
human resource
behavior change
qualitative methods
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/5/1260

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