Simple Summary: Livestock water requirements are expected to triple. Simultaneously, freshwater availability declines while the risk of waterborne diseases rises with increasing temperatures. These challenges demand water management strategies on farms. Analyzing specific drinking behavior indicators can provide the basis…
Abstract: Water is used in dairy farming for producing feed, watering the animals, and cleaning and disinfecting barns and equipment. The objective of this study was to investigate the drinking and cleaning water use in a dairy cow barn. The…
ABSTRACT Very limited information is available on the effects of drinking water temperature on dairy calves. Therefore,the present experiment was designed to study the effects on performance, health, and water consumptionof dairy calves offered drinking water either warm (16 to…
SUMMARY Cow cleanliness is important for providing hygienic milk production and the welfare of dairy cows. Body cleanliness scoring was based on subjective evaluating of degree of manure contamination on different areas of the cow’s body. The aim of this…
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of different trough types on the water consumption and drinking behaviour of pasture-based beef heifers. Two trials were implemented with 32 beef heifers to test two different types of water…
ABSTRACTA study was conducted to explore the utility of different drinking water temperature, viz. ambient water temperature (10.25±0.28°C, T1), 15–20°C (T2) and 35–40°C (T3) during winter at IVRI, Mukteshwar campus on 18 crossbred (HF × Haryana) lactating cows. They were…
Amit Kumar Singh1 · Champak Bhakat1 · Pooja Singh2Received: 24 September 2021 / Accepted: 24 March 2022© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 AbstractIn this changing climate scenario, the availability of potable water has become scarce for both humans and animals…
Bitopan Das, Polash Pratim Dutta, Monoj Bardalai , Partha Pratim DuttaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Tezpur University, Napaam, Assam, India. Proper ventilation in dairy barns is important in the summer as high temperatures and the accompanying heat stress can affect the…
D M GOLHER, P THIRUMURUGAN, B H M PATEL and V K UPADHYAY. Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteshwar, Uttarakhand 263 138 IndiaReceived: 19 April 2014; Accepted: 23 July 2014 A study was conducted to explore the utility of different drinking…
Gabriela Schenato Bica, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho and Dayane Lemos TeixeiraLaboratório de Etologia Aplicada, The behavior and performance of steers on pasture regarding water availability in troughs or in ponds were compared. Eight paddocks were randomly allocated to one…
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