Dairy Cow Daily Time Budget as an Indicator of Welfare, Health and Biosecurity

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027014%3A_____%2F17%3AN0000102" target="_blank" >RIV/00027014:_____/17:N0000102 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://vuzv.cz/_privat/17095.pdf" target="_blank" >https://vuzv.cz/_privat/17095.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dairy Cow Daily Time Budget as an Indicator of Welfare, Health and Biosecurity

Original language description

Dairy cows need to be provided certain environmental requirements to sup­port their natural behaviour, well-being, optimal productivity, fertility and health. The housing environment must provide each cow with unhindered ac­cess to feed, water, and a comfortable resting area. The interactions among feeding, resting and rumination are critical to the cow comfort. A free-stall housed dairy cow has six key daily activities. She needs time for eating, lying and resting, social interaction, ruminating, drinking and time spending out­side the pens included milking. The aim of the study was to determine dairy cows' daily time budget during the one year monitoring. We analysed 24-hour basic daily activities collected from 96 dairy cows housed in three free stall barns in three farms. The observed parameters were evaluated by Statistica software (non-parametric tests). During our monitoring we found the follow­ing structure of daily activities: eating 4-5 hours/day (range 3-6) (obviously from 9 to 14 meals/day), lying and resting in the boxes 12.6 hours/day (range 12 to 14), spent 2.4 hours/day (range 2 - 3) in social interaction, ruminate (in standing and lying position) 8.2 hours/day (range 7 - 10), drinking 0.5 hour/ day (range 0.2 - 1.5) and 2.6 hours/day (range 2.5 - 3.5) spending outside the pen for travel to and from the parlour, milking. Cows housed in free stall facili­ties on concrete floors require a minimum of 12 hour/day of rest in a comfort­able stall. When their time budget is challenged through increased time out of the pen milking, overstocking, poor stall design, heat stress and prolonged

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40201 - Animal and dairy science; (Animal biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

<a href="/en/project/QJ1530058" target="_blank" >QJ1530058: Creating a system for evaluation of biosecurity, welfare and health of farm animals for the production of health friendly foodstaffs of animal origin</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů