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 …

Selection in commercial populations on aspects of output, such as for growth rate in poultry,
against fatness and for growth rate in pigs, and for milk yield in cows, has had very large …

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 …

This paper highlights a number of issues associated with the use and interpretation of
feeding behaviour measures using examples from the literature on rats, cows and pigs. The …

Evidence exists that early life experiences may influence development of characteristic
feeding patterns in dairy cattle. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of milk …

The main objective of our study was to validate, for dairy cows, a new pressure-based
system (RumiWatch noseband sensor, Itin+ Hoch GmbH, Liestal, Switzerland; RWS) that …

Using automatic sensor data, this is the first study to characterize individual cow feeding and
rumination behavior simultaneously as affected by lameness. A group of mixed-parity …

Prediction and modelling of the phenotypic performance of dairy cattle is based on
knowledge of cattle genotype and the environment in which they are managed. Interactions …

To determine whether visits or meals are the most biologically relevant unit of short-term
feeding behavior, we analyzed 209,025 records of visits to feeders by 37 cows. Two feeds …

Forty-five Holstein lactating cows (41±8.8 kg/d of milk yield, 96±35.6 days in milk, and
607±80.4 kg of body weight) were enrolled in this study to assess the effects of diets …