Validation of an automated method to count steps while cows stand on a weighing platform and its application as a measure to detect lameness

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6523-6528

  Chapinal, N ^a   Tucker, C B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comfort; Gait; Restlessness; Weight shifting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GAIT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GAIT; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84867743934     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2012-5742     Document Type: Article

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