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The Effect of Placement and Group Size on the Use of an Automated Brush by Groups of Lactating Dairy Cattle

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Indoor housed dairy cows are highly motivated to scratch themselves using mechanical brushes. Many farms provide brushes to cows, yet no commercial brushes to date capture how the brushes are used by the cows in the pen. We developed an automated brush and tested how much cows use it...

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Autores principales: Foris, Borbala, Sadrzadeh, Negar, Krahn, Joseph, Weary, Daniel M., von Keyserlingk, Marina A. G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9952420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36830547
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13040760