ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF AUTOMATIC MILKING ON THE SELECTED PARAMETERS OF DAIRY COWS WELFARE
Abstract
the aim of study was to find out the influence of milking by automatic milking system (AMS) on the physiological needs of dairy cows within 30 minutes after milking. Ethological study covered the needs of feed intake, water intake and need of lying down. The need of feed intake in 30 minutes after milking was found at 75.51 % of dairy cows in the barn with AMS. The need of water intake was found at 41.79 % of dairy cows. The percentage of cows, which needed to lie down after milking, was 3.7 %.
© 2013 Miloslav Šoch, Otakar Fiala, Jana Šťastná, Jan Brouček, Petr Tejml, Luboš Smutný, Šárka Smutná, Bohuslav Čermák, Luboš Zábranský, Anna Šimková, Kateřina Švejdová, Marcela Raabová, Václav Pálka, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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