Kareemah Chopra, Holly R Hodges, Zoe E Barker, Jorge A Vázquez Diosdado, Jonathan R Amory, Tom C Cameron, Darren P Croft, Nick J Bell, Andy Thurman, David Bartlett, Edward A Codling
Bunching behavior in cattle may occur for several reasons including enabling social interactions, a response to stress or danger, or due to shared interest in resources such as feeding or watering areas. There is evidence in pasture grazed cattle that bunching may occur more frequently at higher ambient temperatures, possibly due to sharing of fly-load or to seek shade from the direct sun under heat stress conditions. Here we demonstrate how bunching behavior is associated with higher ambient temperatures in a barn-housed UK dairy herd...
November 1, 2023: Journal of Dairy Science