There is an increasing interest in using precision dairy technologies (PDT) to monitor real-
time animal behavior and physiology in livestock systems around the world. Although PDT in …

Current animal welfare protocols focus on demonstrating the absence (or at least low levels)
of indicators of poor welfare, potentially creating a mismatch between what is expected by …

Personality is often defined as the behaviour of individual animals that is consistent across
contexts and over time. Personality traits may become unstable during stages of ontogeny …

During the past decades, the study of “animal personalities” has gained increasing
importance in the field of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, thereby contributing to a …

Individual animals behave differently from one another, especially when confronting
challenges such as changes in diet (eg weaning), environment (eg moving from pasture to …

The primary objective of this study was to determine whether the level of concentrate
allowance in an automated milking system (AMS) affects the feed intake, eating behavior …

Individuals within a population often show consistent between individual differences in their
average behavioural expression (personality), and consistent differences in their within …

There is growing evidence that animal personality is linked to a range of productivity traits in
farm animals, including dairy cattle. To date, the methodology for assessing personality traits …

Dairy calf welfare concerns are growing and new evidence suggests that the early life
environment influences appropriate physical, behavioral, and cognitive development lasting …

Abstract Calves with Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) have different feeding behavior and
activity levels prior to BRD diagnosis when compared to healthy calves, but it is unknown if …