A new method to measure behavioural activity levels in dairy cows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 247-258

  Müller, Roger ^a   Schrader, Lars ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity levels; Actiwatch ; Behavioural activity; Dairy cows; Data logger; Validation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANIMAL WELFARE; BEHAVIOR; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0141484320     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(03)00141-2     Document Type: Article

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