Maternal behaviour of dairy heifers and sucking of their newborn calves in group housing

Illmann, Gudrun; Špinka, Marek

doi:10.1016/0168-1591(93)90001-6

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“…Buffalo dams spent higher time in sniffing and licking calf's body during early post-partum period which declined subsequently. Our findings are in accordance with Illmann and Spinka (1993) in cows and Val-Laillet et al (2004) in ewes. Buffalo dams stand up immediately after calving and start licking the calf vigorously to stimulate the calf activity, respiratory centre, breathing (Hafez 1992), circulation, urination and defaecation (Metz & Metz 1986).…”

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confidence: 82%

“…During this period buffalo cows remain standing for longer duration to make close contact with their young ones in order to recognize (Usmani et al 1990) and nurse them properly. Several studies had shown that cows spent maximum time in care giving behaviours like licking (Illmann & Spinka 1993;Val-Laillet et al 2004) whereas, least priority have been given to maintenance behavioural activities viz. eating (Huzzey et al 2005) and rumination (Pahl et al 2014) during early post-partum period.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Post parturient neonatal behaviour and their relationship with maternal behaviour score, parity and sex in Surti buffaloes

Dubey

Singh

Choudhary

et al. 2017

Journal of Applied Animal Research

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Present study was conducted to investigate the post parturient behavioural activities of Surti buffaloes (n = 25) and their calves using low light-intensity cameras and digital video recorder at five stages (I: from calving to half an hour, II: 6-6:30 hours, III: 12-12:30 hours, IV: 18-18:30 hours and V: 24-24:30 hours after calving) over a period of 24 h immediately after calving. Based on their maternal behaviour score (MBS) dams were categorized into two classes that is, group 1 (MBS = 1: very aggressive and 2: very attentive) and group 2 (MBS = 3: indifferent and 4: apathetic) where dam scored MBS 1 represented very aggressive and 4 apathetic. Overall eating time was significantly (P < .05) higher in buffalo cows of group 2 (8.87 ± 1.34 min) than in group 1 (5.37 ± 0.50 min). Dams of both the groups spent significantly (P < .05) longer time in sniffing and licking calf's body and licking ano-genital area of calf during stage I than later stages. Significantly (P < .05) longer time intervals from birth to standing (53.03 ± 3.04 min) were observed in group 2 calves. A positive correlation (P < .01) was observed between the time interval from birth to suckling and duration of active teat seeking (0.525). It may be inferred that post parturient neonatal behaviour have certain level of relationship with maternal behaviour score, whereas, parity and sex did not show any significant effect on MBS in Surti buffaloes. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post parturient neonatal behaviour and their relationship with maternal behaviour score, parity and sex in Surti buffaloes

Dubey

Singh

Choudhary

et al. 2017

Journal of Applied Animal Research

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“…Krohn et al (1999) already observed that calves that stayed with their dam for the first four days of life express less non-nutritive sucking after their weaning, especially if they had suckled their dam during these first two days. These activities are linked to the lack of sucking (especially for milk intake) and to ingestive chewing (needed for the intake of solid foods) (Illmann and Spinka, 1993;Veissier et al, 1998;de Passillé, 2001). It has been well described that the dam has an influence on it offspring, especially for the development of species-specific behaviour (see Section 1).…”

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Suckling, weaning, and the development of oral behaviours in dairy calves

Veissier

Carè

Pomiès

2013

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

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“…Hence, there exists a risk of increased infection pressure from crowding cattle indoors. It has also been found that the formation of cow-calf bond can be disturbed when calving occurs in groups, especially in crowded situations [53]. Creating a large pasture with forest to protect the animals from the weather on Farm 2 meant that calving occurs on pasture instead of indoors, resulting in higher survival rate of calves.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Merging Small Scattered Pastures into Large Pasture-Forest Mosaics Can Improve Profitability in Swedish Suckler-Based Beef Production

Holmström

Hessle

Andersson

et al. 2018

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Abstract:A scattered structure of small pastures has negative effects on profitability in beef enterprises because small enclosures result in high labor costs per livestock unit. Moreover, larger enterprises distribute the costs across more livestock units and hence achieve lower operating costs. Creating larger coherent pastures makes it easier to increase herd size and yields positive effects due to economies of scale. This study on five Swedish organic cow-calf enterprises examined how profitability is affected by creating larger pastures from small scattered pastures and adjacent forest land. Additional income, additional costs, reduced income and reduced costs were taken into account using a partial budgeting technique. A change to larger coherent pastures was found to be profitable for all enterprises examined. Agri-environmental payments and supports were the most important benefit from creating larger pastures, followed by income increases and cost reductions resulting from economies of scale and improved consolidation. Income reductions due to premature final felling (clearcutting of forest land) and the opportunity cost of forest land did not have a major influence. To conclude, creating large coherent pasture-forest mosaics by merging small scattered enclosures is profitable for Swedish organic cow-calf enterprises.

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Maternal behaviour of dairy heifers and sucking of their newborn calves in group housing

Cited by 55 publications

References 10 publications

Post parturient neonatal behaviour and their relationship with maternal behaviour score, parity and sex in Surti buffaloes

Post parturient neonatal behaviour and their relationship with maternal behaviour score, parity and sex in Surti buffaloes

Suckling, weaning, and the development of oral behaviours in dairy calves

Merging Small Scattered Pastures into Large Pasture-Forest Mosaics Can Improve Profitability in Swedish Suckler-Based Beef Production

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