Technical note - A comparison of methods used to measure eating and ruminating activity in confined dairy cattle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1801-1803

  Kononoff, P J ^a   Lehman, H A ^a   Heinrichs, A J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic recording; Eating; Graze software; Ruminating

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EATING; FEMALE; LACTATION; MASTICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUMINANT STOMACH;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EATING; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LACTATION; MASTICATION; RUMEN;

EID: 0036652973     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74254-9     Document Type: Article

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