Effects of individual or combined housing systems on behavioural and growth responses of dairy calves

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dc.contributor.authorTapki, Ibrahim
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-18T20:26:49Z
dc.date.available2024-09-18T20:26:49Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.departmentHatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThis study was carried out to investigate the effects of individual versus combined housing systems on behavioural and growth responses of dairy calves in order to test the hypothesis that when calves were kept in early age individually and later in groups, they would increase growth performance and social behaviours. Twenty-four Holstein Friesian calves were allocated to two different housing systems. After three days of colostrum feeding, individually housed (IH) calves were kept in pens (1 m x 1.5 m) for 60 days while combined housed ( CH) calves were kept in group pens (3 m x 3 m) for 30 days after individual housing during the period of 4-33 days. Each calf was monitored twice a week for a period of 1 h starting at 08.00, 10.00, 12.00, 18.00, 20.00 and 22.00 h at 10-min intervals. Behavioural activities were playing, walking, licking objects, idle standing, lying, restlessness, grooming and tongue playing. Calves' live weights, body measurements and feed intakes were determined on a weekly basis. The results were: 1) combined housing calves increased their calf starter intake (37.35 +/- 1.24 kg vs. 23.39 +/- 0.86 kg; p<0.001), alfalfa hay intake (8.76 +/- 0.35 kg vs. 7.14 +/- 0.43 kg; p<0.05) and total feed intake (46.11 +/- 91.04 kg vs. 30.53 +/- 0.86 kg; p<0.001) compared to individual housed calves; 2) combined housing increased the proportional events of playing (12.80 vs. 2.86%), walking (19.14 vs. 3.81%) and grooming (8.06 vs. 4.60%), but decreased licking objects (1.03 vs. 2.94%), idle standing (20.73 vs. 36.29%), lying (30.19 vs. 39.53%) and restlessness (1.69 vs. 3.47%) compared to individual housing systems (p<0.001) without affecting tongue rolling (6.36 vs. 6.50%); 3) combined housing system increased body weight gain by about 2.36 kg and body length by about 1.48 cm per calf compared to those kept in individual pens (p<0.05). In conclusion, combined housing system provided calves more opportunity to show their walking, playing and grooming activities, reflecting increases in feed intake, body weight gain and length compared to individual housing system.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09064700701464405
dc.identifier.endpage60en_US
dc.identifier.issn0906-4702
dc.identifier.issn1651-1972
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-36749059427en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage55en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09064700701464405
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/10554
dc.identifier.volume57en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000251291100002en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Asen_US
dc.relation.ispartofActa Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A-Animal Scienceen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjecthousingen_US
dc.subjectindividualen_US
dc.subjectcombineden_US
dc.subjectdairy calfen_US
dc.subjectbehaviouren_US
dc.subjectgrowthen_US
dc.titleEffects of individual or combined housing systems on behavioural and growth responses of dairy calvesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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