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- 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 (P<0.01) between groups in both backward and forward tossing behaviors. Both groups with cables above their mangers showed lower feed tossing behavior (22 and 20 vs. 52 times backward feed tossing; and 9.2 and 4.2 vs. 25.4 forward tossing for groups with 80 cm and 70 cm height above their manger and the control respectively). Height of cable (80 or 70 cm) had no significant (P>0.05) effect on the tossing behaviors.
- Publication
Journal of Animal Science, 2006, Vol 84, p302
- ISSN
0021-8812
- Publication type
Academic Journal