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Poster 15<br />
Gudrun Plesch presents Poster 15 during the poster sessions in the Aula.<br />
Session theme 1: Development, validation and automated measurements <strong>of</strong> indicators <strong>of</strong> animal welfare<br />
RELIABILITY TESTING CONCERNING BEHAVIOUR AROUND RESTING<br />
IN DAIRY COWS<br />
G. Plesch 1 , N. Broerkens 1 , S. Laister 2 , C. Winckler 2 , U. Knierim 1<br />
1 Department <strong>of</strong> Farm Animal Behaviour and Husbandry, University <strong>of</strong> Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany<br />
2 Department <strong>of</strong> Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University <strong>of</strong> Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences<br />
Vienna, Austria<br />
Common measures concerning <strong>be</strong>haviour around resting are <strong>of</strong>ten time-consuming to record and<br />
therefore not suitable for on-farm welfare assessments. The aim <strong>of</strong> the study was to identify feasible<br />
and reliable measures <strong>of</strong> resting comfort in terms <strong>of</strong> inter-observer reliability (IOR) and consistency<br />
<strong>of</strong> results per farm over time.<br />
As part <strong>of</strong> the Welfare Quality ® project 18 different measures <strong>of</strong> resting that were considered to <strong>be</strong><br />
welfare relevant were taken during three farms visits (approximately 60 and further 120 days apart)<br />
on 35 farms in Austria and Germany with cubicle, deep litter and tied systems.<br />
Some measures, e.g. ‘cows lying on side’, occurred too infrequently (
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