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Table 2 Mean, median and standard deviations per MooMonitor+ behavioral metric, milk yield and live weight for sound and unsound labelled cows in the merged data set (3799 recordings; 1979 sound and 1820 unsound)

From: Prediction of lameness using automatically recorded activity, behavior and production data in post-parturient Irish dairy cows

Variable (min/hour/day) Group N Mean Median Sd
Rumination Sound 1979 20.55 20.66 4.06
Unsound 1820 20.44 20.55 4.21
Resting Sound 1979 15.81 15.36 4.94
Unsound 1820 16.99 16.31 5.46
Feeding Sound 1979 19.27 20.72 6.26
Unsound 1820 18.18 19.26 6.44
Activitya
 Low Sound 1979 2.46 1.64 2.22
Unsound 1820 2.32 1.78 1.72
 Medium Sound 1979 1.53 1.27 1.35
Unsound 1820 1.62 1.31 1.52
 High Sound 1979 0.38 0.21 0.86
Unsound 1820 0.46 0.20 1.08
Milk yield Sound 1979 24.39 23.85 8.29
Unsound 1820 27.81 28.00 9.84
Live weight Sound 1979 620.61 618.5 76.1
Unsound 1820 683.45 681.5 76.68
  1. aThe activity data from the accelerometer consisted of 3 levels (low, medium, high), based on a commercial algorithm designed for grazing dairy cow systems
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Irish Veterinary Journal

ISSN: 2046-0481