Abstract
The study was carried out on 18 Romanian Black and White cows in their first one hundred days of lactation. The aim of this study was to determine the daily distribution of the behaviour pattern of the cows in 24 hours. During the experiments, the following behaviour aspects were determined: nutritional behaviour, drinking behaviour, ruminating behaviour and resting behaviour. Ration was made of 3 kg concentrates, 6 kg alfalfa hay, and 20 kg grass silage (leguminous and grasses). Dry matter contents for concentrates was 88.72%, for grass silage was 24.82% and for alfalfa hay was 88.96%. Data was computed by ANOVA/MANOVA. Results showed that the cows spent on average 5.00 hours (20.87% of 24 hours) for feed consumption, 0.53 hours (2.17% of 24 hours) for drinking, 8.83 hours (36.79% of 24 hours) for rumination and 9.64 hours (40.17% of 24 hours) for resting.
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