Use of the Hebb-Williams closed-field test to study the learning ability of Jersey cows

Kilgour, R.

doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(81)80020-6

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“…The plasticity of cattle behaviour and the learning capacities are well developed and are comparable with that of other mammals such as rodents, cats and horses (Kilgour, 1981). Cattle learn by memorising information received by their sensory organs.…”

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Genetic analysis and evaluation of behavioural traits in cattle

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confidence: 81%

Genetic analysis and evaluation of behavioural traits in cattle

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“…The correlation of movement in the open-field test with total error scores in the maze test was positive and significant (r=0.45**), and similarly the locomotor behaviour correlated with learning result (r=0.54**) [34,35].…”

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Influence of Age, Gender and Sire Line on Young Cattle Behaviour Traits

Brouček¹,

Uhrinčať²,

Arave³

et al. 2013

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The aim of this study was to test effects of age, gender, and sire line on dairy cattle behaviour. We have analyzed results of ethological tests for 40 Holstein breed animals (23 males and 17 females), offsprings of three sires. Maintenance behaviour were observed at the age of 90, 130 and 170 days. Behaviour in the maze was conducted at the age of 119 days, an open-field test was applied at the age of 124, 168, and 355 days. The social behaviour was determined by feeding on 155th day of the age. The times and the number of periods in all activities of maintenance behaviour were changing significantly (P<0.001) according to the age. The total time of lying, lying with ruminating, ruminating, feeding was increasing from the age of 90 days to the age of 170 days, on the other hand the time of standing was decreasing.The times of total lying, lying with ruminating, total ruminating, feeding were increased, and time of standing was decreased from the age of 90 days to the age of 170 days. Calves spent more time lying on the left side than on the right side. The number of ruminating periods was increasing according to the age. Eating periods were decreasing from the age of 90 to 170 days. The most of lying periods were recorded at the age of 130 days. The differences between sex were found in total time of lying, lying on the right side (P<0.05), and the males rest longer and had more periods of lying than females. We have found differences in times of feeding (P<0.001), total lying, standing (P<0.01), and lying on the left side (P<0.05) according to sire by comparing behaviour of the calves. Sire genotypes were significantly manifested in period number of total lying (P<0.001), lying on the right side, feeding (P<0.01), and standing (P<0.05). Males stood in the first part of maze longer than females (P<0.001), also length of total standing was longer by bulls (P<0.01). Heifers took shorter time to leave the maze than bulls (P<0.05). Sire lineages significantly differed in times of standing in the first part of maze and maze leaving. We did not find any significant differences either among sire lineage groups or between genders in locomotor behaviour measured by the number of crossed squares in open-field test. During all observations were more mobile heifers. No significant differences were found between males and females in social behaviour. The sire line influenced only the number of total duels (P<0.001). We found significant positive relationship between live body weight and time of staying in the first part of maze (r=0.3957**), time of maze leaving (r=0.3720**), and number of total and win duels (0.4031**, 0.3216*). Significant relationships were recorded in almost maintenance behaviour activities (P<0.001). Consistency of locomotor behaviour was proved only between the ages of 124 and 168 days (r=0.3177*). Significant relationship between maze behaviours and number of crossed squares were found only in ages of 119 and 124 days (r=-0.3721**; r=-0.4110**; r=-0.3994**).Keywords: cattle, growth, behaviour...

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“…Kilgour, 1981;Kovalcik and Kovalcik, 1986;Bailey et ah, 1989). During the second period (period 2) the cows were allowed direct access to the forage from the bedded area but the automatic concentrate feeders were now only accessible through the AMS.…”

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Effect of food type and location on the attendance to an automatic milking system by daily cows and the effect of feeding during milking on their behaviour and milking characteristics

1998

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1998). Effect of food type and location on the attendance to an automatic milking system by daily cows and the effect of feeding during milking on their behaviour and milking characteristics. AbstractFood can be used in an automatic milking system (AMS) to encourage frequent attendance to, and modify behaviour in, an AMS. An AMS was designed such that a cow had to pass from a bedded area through the AMS to enter the feeding area. A visit resulted in milking if the interval since the last milking was greater than 4 h. Fourteen Holstein-Friesian dairy cows were allowed to attend voluntarily an AMS for 15 hlday for three 8-day periods. In period 1 the cows were given forage in the feeding area and concentrates in the bedded area but in period 2 this was reversed. Period 3 repeated period 1. The cows were also divided into two groups of seven, only one of which was given 1 kg of concentrates when milked in each period in a cross-over design. Visits per cow per day increased when the cows were given forage in the feeding area (6-0 v. 4-1 (s.e.d. 0-08) P < 0-05) but milkings per cow per day were only slightly different (2-6 v. 2-4 (s.e.d. = 0-02) P = 0-052). Feeding forage in the feeding area modified forage-eating behaviour by reducing the number of bouts (4-9 v. 7-6 bouts per cow per day, P < 0-05) and total forage eating time (209 v. 289 min per cow per day (s.e.d. = 33-6), P < 0-05). The cows also tended to spend less time lying (529 v. 620 min per cow per day (s.e.d. = 43-2) P = 0-051). There was no effect of feeding/not feeding concentrates in the milking stall on visits per cow per day or milkings per cow per day. However, feeding tended to create more shuffling behaviour during the automatic teat cup attachment process (3-4 v. 6-7 shuffling bouts per milking (s.e.d. 2-07) P = 0-053) but there were no effects on the levels of kicking, successful teat cup attachment rate, vocalization, elimination, hesitations in mounting a step or poor rear leg positions. The coins tended to adjust to a more accessible stance during both the automatic attachment process (from 17% of milkings exhibiting poor leg positions at the start of attachment, to 10% at the end, P < 0-01) and over the course of the experiment (from 26% to 10%, P < 0-02). There was a trend for cows who were not fed to milk out quicker than those who were fed for all milkings per day combined (733 s v. 811 (s.e.d. 43-3) s P = 0-074) but there were no other effects on yield, milk flow rate from the udder or time taken to milk out for all milkings through the day combined or just the first milking of the day.Feeding concentrates in the feeding area can be used as an alternative to feeding forage in the feeding area, but there is no need to feed concentrates in the milking stall. Feeding cows while they were being milked did not improve their behaviour or milking characteristics.

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Use of the Hebb-Williams closed-field test to study the learning ability of Jersey cows

Cited by 28 publications

References 18 publications

Genetic analysis and evaluation of behavioural traits in cattle

Genetic analysis and evaluation of behavioural traits in cattle

Influence of Age, Gender and Sire Line on Young Cattle Behaviour Traits

Effect of food type and location on the attendance to an automatic milking system by daily cows and the effect of feeding during milking on their behaviour and milking characteristics

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