“…Although not yet commercially available in the agricultural industry, the use of accelerometers on sheep in experimental settings has increased in recent years (Fogarty et al, 2018) and has been used to detect behavioural states in ewes including grazing, resting, lying, standing, walking and ruminating (Alvarenga et al, 2016;Giovanetti et al, 2017;le Roux et al, 2017;Barwick et al, 2018b;Mansbridge et al, 2018;Walton et al, 2018 and many more). More specific applications have included the identification of urination events (Lush et al, 2018;Marsden et al, 2021), detection of parturition (Fogarty et al, 2020b(Fogarty et al, , 2021, posture discrimination (Radeski and Ilieski, 2017;Fogarty et al, 2020a) and lameness prediction (Al-Rubaye et al, 2018;Barwick et al, 2018a;Kaler et al, 2020).…”