The aim of the thesis titled Evaluation of expressions of life and welfare of dairy cows on the farm operated in organic farming was to evaluate the effect of stable on the occurrence and frequency of basic daily activities dairy cows. The evaluation was carried out on an organic farm in the district Pelhřimov in the Czech Republic, where was bred cattle with dairy production, namely Czech fleckvieh, Holstein along with hybrids of these breeds and crossbreeds of Czech fleckvieh and Ayrshire. Ethological observations conducted at fifteen-minute intervals. In this observation activities were monitored as resting, feeding, watering, defecation, urination, comfort behavior, play, speech rut and observing the surroundings. There has been observed that most of the time they spend on pasture cows grazing on average 55 % of the time. The observation results were evaluated statistically significant difference between feedings in the stable and pasture. In the stable, this activity devoted an average of 10,8 +- 3,78 cows in the pasture while the number of dairy cows is higher, 22,16 +- 10,85 animals. Conversely, in the stable with the cows most devoted rest, which was involved in about 45 % of the total time per day. In the stable difference was observed between the morning and afternoon rest. The morning was devoted to this activity 14,17 +- 3,85 animals, while the rest of the afternoon was observed at 15,5 +- 3,48 cows.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:250705 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Hrbáčová, Zdeňka |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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