Predicting and Identifying Illness Through Changes in Dairy Cow Behavior
Published: October 22, 2013
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Introduction There is mounting empirical evidence that measures of behavior can be used to predict and identify health and welfare concerns in dairy cattle (von Keyserlingk et al., 2009). Interest in the association between dairy cow behavior and illness is growing, particularly with an increasing availability of commercially available equipment that is readily available for the automated mon...
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Minh Dang Trading and Servicing Company
22 de octubre de 2013
THis is very interesting topic special for our farm.Could you send us some photos which can tell problem through cows behaviour?
Thank you and best regards.
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6 de noviembre de 2013
This is an area,the Study of changes in Animal Behavior, that holds great promise in controlling and taking preventive measures even before the disease actually unfolds.
The article although has dealt in detail about the common metabolic diseases and mastitis,evidences in the form of pictures could have helped.The study could be extended to many other diseases as well,and nuances in behavioral changes recorded in sufficiently large numbers before reaching a significantly acceptable conclusion.
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