Using animal-mounted sensor technology and machine learning to predict time-to-calving in beef and dairy cows

Worldwide, there is a trend towards increased herd sizes, and the animal-to-stockman ratio is increasing within the beef and dairy sectors; thus, the time available to monitoring individual animals is reducing. The behaviour of cows is known to change in the hours prior to parturition, for example,...

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Main Authors: G.A. Miller, M. Mitchell, Z.E. Barker, K. Giebel, E.A. Codling, J.R. Amory, C. Michie, C. Davison, C. Tachtatzis, I. Andonovic, C.-A. Duthie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731119003380