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

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

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