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Electronic monitoring of rumination activity as an indicator of health status and production traits in high-yielding dairy cows

Gáspárdy, András and Efrat, Gingis and Bajcsy, Árpád and Fekete, Sándor (2014) Electronic monitoring of rumination activity as an indicator of health status and production traits in high-yielding dairy cows. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, 62 (4). pp. 452-462. ISSN 0236-6290

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Abstract

In view of the demonstrated relationship between rumination time and health status, the general welfare and metabolic condition of ruminants are often assessed by the examination of rumen function. The main goal of this study was to monitor the daily rumination activity (RA) and its connection with actual liveweight (LW), milk yield (MY) and with two diseases (subclinical hyperketonaemia — SHK, uterine disease — UD) in 96 cows on the basis of a total of 1638 observations in Israel. The studied sample gave a highly significant response, showing that the selected diseases had a diminishing impact on RA and LW and no influence on MY. It can be concluded that the change of RA as determined by electronic monitoring, complemented by the change of LW, is a useful general indicator of health status and subclinical disease before the appearance of clinical signs.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: S Agriculture / mezőgazdaság > SV Veterinary science / állatorvostudomány
Depositing User: Erika Bilicsi
Date Deposited: 06 Mar 2017 13:27
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2023 12:33
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/49795

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