Electronic detection of lameness in dairy cows through measuring pedometric activity and lying behavior

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 134-141

  Alsaaod, Maher ^a   Römer, Christoph ^a   Kleinmanns, Jens ^a   Hendriksen, Kathrin ^a   Rose Meierhöfer, Sandra ^b   Plümer, Lutz ^a   Büscher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Potsdam Bornim (ATB)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Lameness; Locomotion; Pedometer

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; THRESHOLD;

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EID: 84870253837     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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