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Technical Note: Assessment of a Novel Method to Measure Water Intake in Beef Cattle and Its Application to Determining Dry Matter Intake.
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- Sensor-Based Precision Feeding Systems in Animal Production: Technologies and Applications.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Characterization of individual beef cattle water intake.Journal of animal science · 2026Article
- Generalizable long short-term memory models for beef cattle DMI under grazing.Journal of animal science · 2026Article
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Abstract
Improving the efficiency, economic viability, and environmental sustainability of beef cattle production requires tools to identify resource-efficient animals. Validated tools to measure, monitor, and verify individual feed and water intake are needed. Here, we verify the validity of the Vytelle In-Pen Weighing Position to passively collect daily full body weights and assess the use of an integrated flow meter with a commercial waterer as a tool to measure daily water intake. This study involved 103 bulls (40 Charolais and 63 Angus) and 54 heifers (25 Charolais and 29 Angus). These animals were fed in a facility with feed intake nodes, In-Pen Weighing, and metered waterers. Body weights collected on the chute scale and total water usage measured by a residential water meter were used to evaluate body weight and water intake measured at the In-Pen Weighing Positions. We confirmed that In-Pen Weighing is highly correlated to chute weighing (Spearman's correlation coefficient, ρ = 0.99,
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