ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2016, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (12): 2331-2341.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2016.12.002

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Study Progress on the Rule of Body Temperature and Its Application in Reproduction of Dairy Cattle

LI Xiao-jun1,WANG Zhen-ling2,CHEN Xiao-li1,KOU Hong-xiang1,3,LI Xiu-ling4,WANG Yan4,WANG Dong1*   

  1. (1. Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193,China;2. Beijing Vocatioeal College of Agriculture , Beijing 102442,China;3. College of Animal Science and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118,China;4. Animal Disease Control Center of Daxing Destrict in Beijing, Beijing 102600,China)
  • Received:2016-06-30 Online:2016-12-23 Published:2016-12-23

Abstract:

Automation and information are the important development directions of technologies in dairy industry. To break through the bottleneck of automatically monitoring technology for quiet estrus cows, the regulation pattern of body temperature has become another study focus related to reproductive cycle of dairy cattle after the regulation pattern of activity quantity. Both age and diurnal variation characteristics of body temperature in cow have been shown. Meanwhile, the regulation pattern of body temperature related to estrus, pregnancy and delivery on reproductive cows was observed, and the regulation patterns varied with different measurement sites. Among these detection sites, the regulation pattern of viginal temperature plays a more instructive role in marking reproductive behavior for its close relationship to reproductive activities. Additionally, the body temperature was usually affected by reproductive hormones, environmental conditions, diseases, measurement methods and other factors. The premises of making better use of body temperature data are scientific analysis of factors affecting body temperature and construction of an automatic collection technology and database for it, which will promote the automation, elaboration and intelligentization of both cow reproduction and health management.

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