ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2016, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (7): 1306-1315.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2016.07.002

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The Progress on Detection Method and the Regularities of Body Temperature and Activities in Dairy Cows

KOU Hong-xiang 1,2# ,ZHAO Fu-ping 1# ,REN Kang 3# ,WANG Zhen-ling 4,CHEN Long 5,CHEN Xiao-li 1,LU Yong-qiang 3* ,WANG Dong 1*   

  1. (1.The Key Laboratory for Farm Animal Genetic and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture of China,Institute of Animal Science,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Beijing 100193,China;2.College of Animal Science and Technology,Jilin Agricultural University,Changchun 130118,China;3.Animal Husbandry Station of Beijing,Beijing 100107,China;4.Beijing Vocational College of Agriculture,Beijing 102442,China;5.Shijiazhuang Tianquan Elite Dairy Ltd.,Shijiazhuang 050020,China)
  • Received:2015-12-28 Online:2016-07-23 Published:2016-07-23

Abstract:

Body temperature and the amount of activities are important indicators evaluating health state and physiological status of livestock,and they are significant to promote the efficiency of dairy farming.Since that reason many studies were focusing on how to detect the body temperature and the amount of activities of cow,and the detecting methods of mechanization,automation and intelligence were gradually developed from traditionally manual operation,and the sensitivity and accuracy of detecting method and the availability of the collected data are improving.The degree of coverage of the data is becoming more and more comprehensive.So the regularities of body temperature and the amount of activities for illness and reproduction were being discovered constantly.However,only the activity information can be automatically collected and applied in large-scale.Although the automatically collecting techniques of reticulo-rumen boluses and vaginal implant for the body temperature have been developed,they can not be applied widely.The automatically collecting method for body temperature is still being explored.This paper reviewed the collection methods of body temperature and the amount of activities,and their regularities in illness,oestrus,pregnancy and calving were analyzed.The prospect of development and application for the automatically collecting technology of body temperature and the amount of activities of dairy cows were discussed,which will lead to a revolution of dairy industry in the future.

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