Simple Summary Machine learning (ML) offers new approaches for analyzing data and is
particularly interesting for large datasets. Dairy farmers implement a wide range of sensors …

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 …

Simple Summary Emotions or affective states recognition in farm animals is an
underexplored research domain. Despite significant advances in animal welfare research …

Affective states can be inferred from responses to ambiguous and threatening stimuli, using
Judgement Bias Tasks (JBTs) and Attention Bias Tasks (ABTs). We investigated the …

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 …

Training dairy cows on the automated milking system (AMS) can improve their performance;
however, the ideal training method and how a cow's individual personality relates to training …

Some research has described a relationship between personality and feeding behavior at
weaning in Holstein dairy calves; our objective was to determine if personality traits …

On most dairy farms, calves are housed individually until weaning. However, depriving
calves of an early social environment impairs behavioral development. We studied the effect …

Implications Cattle temperament can be described based on reactivity to human handling,
novel objects, or stressful situations. Despite its economic and welfare implications, there is …