Calming Hungarian Grey Cattle in Headlocks Using Processed Nasal Vocalization of a Mother Cow.

ABSTRACT: Sound analysis is an important field of research for improving precision livestock farming systems. If the information carried by livestock sounds is interpreted correctly, it could be used to improve management and welfare assessment in this field. Therefore, we hypothesized that the nasal vocalization of a mother cow could have a calming effect on conspecifics. The nasal vocalization in our study was recorded from a mother cow (not part of the test herd) while it was licking its day-old calf. The raw sound was analyzed, cleaned from noises, and the most representative vocalization was lengthened to two minutes. Thirty cows having calves were randomly selected from eighty Hungarian grey cattle cows. Two test days were selected, one week apart; the weather circumstances in both days were s

SUBMITTER: Lenner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10778485 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature