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Testing a system reporting the onset of parturition in housed cows

Niggemeyer, H.; Holtz, W.

Zuchthygiene 23(6): 278-279

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0044-5371
Accession: 001964797

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A temp. probe, triggering an acoustic signal, was inserted into the vaginas of 57 cows in 4 dairy herds 1-2 days prior to expected calving. The alarm was triggered an average of 60+or-36 (10-150) min before the end of parturition in 53 of the cows, 6 of the alarms being false.

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