Sensor based time budgets in commercial Dutch dairy herds vary over lactation cycles and within 24 hours.

Cows from 8 commercial Dutch dairy farms were equipped with 2 sensors to study their complete time budgets of eating, rumination, lying, standing and walking times as derived from a neck and a leg sensor. Daily sensor data of 1074 cows with 3201 lactations was used from 1 month prepartum until 10 mo...

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Main Authors: P R Hut, S E M Kuiper, M Nielen, J H J L Hulsen, E N Stassen, M M Hostens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264392