The study of animal feeding behaviour is of interest to understand feeding, to investigate the
effect of treatments and conditions or to predict illness. This paper reviews the different steps …

The exponentiated exponential distribution, a most attractive generalization of the
exponential distribution, introduced by Gupta and Kundu (Aust. NZJ Stat. 41: 173–188 …

Changes in short-term feeding behavior of dairy cows that occur with the onset of the health
disorders ketosis, acute locomotory problems, and chronic lameness were investigated …

The aims of this study were to determine how measures of feeding, drinking, and standing
behavior change over the period around calving, to derive objective meal and drinking bout …

The objectives of this study were to: 1) objectively define meal criteria (minimum interval
between meals) of free-stall housed cows fed via a feed alley, 2) determine which measures …

An experiment was conducted to determine whether the susceptibility to ruminal acidosis, as
defined through differences in days in milk (DIM), milk production level, and ration …

Climate change leads to several environmental stresses that affects livestock production. In
order to re-store the productive potential the animals need to adapt to the existing climatic …

Attempts to understand ingestion have sought to understand the control of meals. The
present study evaluated a meal definition that included prandial drinking (drinking-explicit …

Eighty-nine steer and bull calves (210±20 d of age) were randomly assigned to a 2× 2
factorial arrangement of treatments to study the effect of sham or band castration (CAST) …

Four ruminally fistulated Holstein heifers (BW= 385±6.2 kg) were used in a 4× 4 Latin square
experiment to determine the effect of feeding frequency on intake, water consumption …