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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 60 No. 6 985-988
© 1977 by American Dairy Science Association ®
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Apparatus for Measurement of Ingestive Behavior in Dairy Cattle1

B. A. Brewer2, B. R. Chapman3 and C. J. Sniffen2

University of Maine, Orono 04473

ABSTRACT

The apparatus monitors ingestive behavior of individual, free-feeding dairy cattle confined to a tie-stall. The system consists of an electronic weighing platform connected to a chart recorder which continuously records the disappearance of feed from the cow's feed tray. This permits quantitation of spontaneous meal numbers, meal durations, within-meal rates, and inter-meal intervals. Construction of the weighing platform is described.

FOOTNOTES

1 Funding supplied in part by a grant from Agway, Inc., Syracuse, NY.

2 Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences.

3 Department of Mechanical Engineering.






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