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ArticleVeterinary sciences2022

Identification of Changes in Rumination Behavior Registered with an Online Sensor System in Cows with Subclinical Mastitis.

Ramūnas Antanaitis, Vida Juozaitienė, Dovilė Malašauskienė, Mindaugas Televičius, Mingaudas Urbutis, Arūnas Rutkaukas, Greta Šertvytytė, Walter Baumgartner

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Article in Veterinary sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ramūnas AntanaitisLarge Animal Clinic, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės Str. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0002-9993-2224
Vida JuozaitienėDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, K. Donelaičio 58, LT-44248 Kaunas, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0002-9777-8243
Dovilė MalašauskienėLarge Animal Clinic, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės Str. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Mindaugas TelevičiusLarge Animal Clinic, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės Str. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0001-8572-2616
Mingaudas UrbutisLarge Animal Clinic, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės Str. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Arūnas RutkaukasLarge Animal Clinic, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės Str. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Greta ŠertvytytėLarge Animal Clinic, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės Str. 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Walter BaumgartnerUniversity Clinic for Ruminants, University of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinaerplatz 1, A-1210 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-7366-7242
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences · LTUniversity of Veterinary Medicine Vienna · ATVytautas Magnus University · LT

Funding

Lietuvos Mokslo Taryba S-MIP-22-137
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to determine the relationship between subclinical mastitis and rumination behavior registered with an online sensor system. Based on the findings of the general clinical examination of 650 milking cows, 10 cows with subclinical mastitis (SCM) and 10 clinically healthy cows (HG) were selected (without clinical signs of any diseases). Rumination behavior biomarkers were registered with RumiWatch noseband sensors (RWS; ITIN + HOCH GmbH, Fütterungstechnik, Liestal, Switzerland). Sensors were implanted on the first day after calving. Data from the RWS 13 days before diagnosis of SCM and 13 days after diagnosis of SCM were compared with HG data from the same period. Healthy cows were checked alongside SCM cows on the same days. In our study, we found that healthy cows spent more time engaging in rumination and drinking (p < 0.05) and also had more boluses per rumination. Moreover, among cows with subclinical mastitis, rumination time from day 4 to day 0 decreased by 60.91%, drinking time decreased by 48.47%, and the number of boluses per rumination decreased by 8.67% (p < 0.05). The results indicate that subclinical affects time and rumination chews registered with sensor systems. However, additional studies with larger numbers of animals are required to confirm these results. Furthermore, the impact of heat stress, estrus, and other effects on rumination behavior biomarkers should be evaluated.

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activityearly diagnosisprecision agricultureruminationsubclinical mastitis

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