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Volume 90, Issue 8 , Pages 3567-3568 , August 2007

Letter to the Editor: The Effects of Force-Feeding Sick Dairy Calves: A Comment on Quigley et al. (2006)

F. Borderas
- Animal Welfare Program, University of British Columbia, 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
M.A.G. von Keyserlingk
- Animal Welfare Program, University of British Columbia, 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
- Corresponding author.
D.M. Weary
- Animal Welfare Program, University of British Columbia, 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
J. Rushen
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, PO Box 1000, Agassiz, British Columbia, V0M 1A0, Canada
A.M. de Passillé
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, PO Box 1000, Agassiz, British Columbia, V0M 1A0, Canada
M.E. Van Amburgh
- Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, 272 Morrison Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853

Received 1 March 2007 ,Accepted 27 March 2007.

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