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Pilot Study: Simultaneous Daily Recording of Total Locomotor Activity and Heart Rate in Horses for Application in Precision Livestock Farming.
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- The Indoor Environment at the University Equestrian Facility in the Autumn Semester: A Case Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Long term monitoring shows phase lagged behaviorally driven locomotor autonomic coupling.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Among physiological parameters, total locomotor activity (TLA) and heart rate (HR) are used as physiological indicators in animal welfare evaluations. The present study aimed to simultaneously record for 24 h the TLA and HR of ten clinically healthy horses housed in conventional individual boxes subjected to a natural photoperiod and temperature. An actigraphy-based data logger was placed on the headstall, and an equine HR monitor was placed around the chest to monitor TLA and HR, respectively. Activity was monitored with 5 min sampling intervals and HR with 5 s intervals. To make the data points uniform, the means of 5 min intervals were calculated. Both investigated parameters showed a daily rhythmicity with a diurnal acrophase (locomotor activity 17:05 ± 1:15 arbitrary unit; heart rate 16.40 ± 0.30 beats/min). Robustness of the rhythm was 17.95 ± 10.53% and 37.05 ± 0.63% for the TLA and HR. A positive correlation was observed between the two investigated parameters in each horse, r = 0.48 ± 0.07,
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