Title

Decreasing feed tossing behavior in dairy cows by emplacing a cable in front of manger.

Authors

Farivar, F.; Kafilzadeh, F.

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to evaluate a method for decreasing feed tossing by dairy cows. Forty five lactating dairy cows were randomly allocated to three treatments: two groups had a cable in front of their manger which was located 40 cm away from feeding fence and with either 80 or 70 cm above the standing floor of cows. The third group had no cable above their manger (control). One week after fixing the cables, feed tossing behavior of cows was directly observed during the morning feeding of a TMR ration for 10 days. Backward and forward tossing behaviors were recorded for each cows in each group. There was a highly significant difference (P0.05) effect on the tossing behaviors.

Subjects

COWS; CABLES; DAIRY farms; STUDENT records; BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL feeds

Publication

Journal of Animal Science, 2006, Vol 84, p302

ISSN

0021-8812

Publication type

Academic Journal