Preference of Dairy Cows for Free-Stalls Bedded with Sand or Granite Fines and Changes in Bacterial Counts in Those Materials

Preference of Dairy Cows for Free-Stalls Bedded with Sand or Granite Fines and Changes in Bacterial Counts in Those Materials

Sand and granite fines were compared as bedding in free stalls for lactating cows. Eighteen stalls were randomly bedded with sand or granite fines. Lactating cows [100 to 160; 31 to 90 d in milk (DIM)] had access to these stalls plus 142 other stalls bedded with sand. Experimental stalls were observ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Professional Animal Scientist 2005-08, Vol.21 (4), p.248-253
Hauptverfasser: Panivivat, R., Kegley, E.B., Kellogg, D.W, Pennington, J.A, Vandevender, K., Hellwig, D.H., Wistuba, T.J., Krumpelman, S.L
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Sprache:eng
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Bacterial Counts
Bedding Materials
Cow Preference
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Zusammenfassung:Sand and granite fines were compared as bedding in free stalls for lactating cows. Eighteen stalls were randomly bedded with sand or granite fines. Lactating cows [100 to 160; 31 to 90 d in milk (DIM)] had access to these stalls plus 142 other stalls bedded with sand. Experimental stalls were observed on 6 d (4 times/d) during the 27-d study. Using a logistic procedure, experimental stalls bedded with sand were 2.8 times more likely to be used than those bedded with granite fines (P
ISSN:1080-7446
1525-318X
DOI:10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31215-8