ISSUES Related to Agreement: Milking Order and Animal Welfare in Large Herds (CMI 105692)

The effects of herd size on the welfare of dairy cows in a pasture-based system using animal- and resource-based indicators

DS Beggs, EC Jongman, PH Hemsworth, AD Fisher

2019-04-01

Animal welfare assessments were conducted on 50 Australian pasture-based dairy farms of varying herd sizes: 16 small (<300 cows), ..

Lame cows on Australian dairy farms: A comparison of farmer-identified lameness and formal lameness scoring, and the position of lame cows within the milking order

DS Beggs, EC Jongman, PE Hemsworth, AD Fisher

2019-02-01

On Australian pasture-based farms, where cows may often walk several kilometers and stand for several hours per day in a crowded c..

Implications of prolonged milking time on time budgets and lying behavior of cows in large pasture-based dairy herds

DS Beggs, EC Jongman, PE Hemsworth, AD Fisher

2018-11-01

In large Australian pasture-based dairy herds, it is common for the time taken to milk a herd of cows to be up to 4 h. Cows are co..

Ensuring dairy cow welfare with increasing scale of production

D Beggs

2018-01-01

Animal welfare is important to the general public and dairy consumers and the dairy industry is coming under increasing scrutiny. ..

Short communication: Milking order consistency of dairy cows in large Australian herds

DS Beggs, EC Jongman, PH Hemsworth, AD Fisher

2018-01-01

We used on-farm records from dairy infrastructure to examine the consistency of the milking order over 150 d in 5 Australian dairy..