
doi: 10.5680/mcpb001
Measuring bodyweight (BW) in cattle is essential for many research and management activities such as calculating dietary energy requirements for maintenance, calculating average daily gain and evaluating breeding values which include BW as a trait. Frequent monitoring of BW in dairy cows is necessary as changes in BW can help assess the energy balance of an animal. Precise understanding of BW gain of growing and fattening cattle or body mass changes during lactation is crucial in developing nutritional management programs and assessing feed efficiency, as well as the overall animal health status. Weigh scales are the most widely used method for determining BW in cattle, despite being timeconsuming and potentially costly to implement. Current advancements in technology have led to the development of automated weighing scales. Such technologies provide a more sensitive and less labourintensive approach for measuring BW changes in cattle. However, few investigations have been conducted to validate and compare automated walk-over weighing scales, coupled with radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tags, with conventional static weighing scales.
636 Animal Husbandry, Ruminants Bovine Cattle
636 Animal Husbandry, Ruminants Bovine Cattle
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