A practical way to detect approaching calving of the dairy cow by a behaviour sensor

Precision Livestock Farming 2007 - Papers Presented at the 3rd European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 141-146

  Maltz, Ephraim ^a   Antler, Aharon ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Calving; Dairy; Lying

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR; CALVING; DAIRY COW; FALSE POSITIVE; LYING; LYING TIME;

ALGORITHMS; DAIRIES;

SENSORS;

EID: 84861356084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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4. Maltz, E., Silanikove, N., Antler, A. and Leitner, G. (2006). Dry-off treatment in dairy cows with CNH as monitored by behaviour sensor. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production, Antalya, Turkey, September 17-20, p. 328. Wageningen Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.