Abstract
Increased labour requirements in dairy farming, associated with expanding herds and a greater necessity for performance-related feeding, result in increased expansion of automatic feeding systems (AFS). Additionally, farmers seek to achieve uniform usage of automatic milking systems (AMS) by offering freshly mixed feed rations several times per day. The aim of the investigations reported here is to record the influence of six times per day feed delivery compared to twice daily, both via AFS, on the behaviour of automatically milked dairy cows. With 4.07 h/(cow × day) compared to 2.65 h/(cow × day), the cows with six times daily feeding were in total present at the feed table over a significantly longer time. When feed was offered twice daily, a larger proportion of animals were observed standing in the feed alley and not feeding. When feed was offered more often per day the milking frequency of the cows in the AMS increased significantly.
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