The diploma thesis deals with the influence of the season on the behavioral symptoms of aberdeen angus cows. Ethological monitoring was carried out on an ecological farm Chadimův mlýn, which is located in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. Monitoring was carried out from April to December 2013. It has been analyzed following behavioral symptoms: feed intake, water intake, stall, physical activity, lying, urination/defecation, sucking and comfortable behavior. By ethological monitoring, graphical and statistical evaluation it was found highly significant effect of the season on feed intake, stall, physical activity, lying and sucking. Inconclusive effect of the season has been detected in water intake, comfortable behavior and urination/defecation. In comparison with behavioral symptoms within days with the highest and lowest average air temperature, there wwas found high difference in the symptoms between standing and lying. Animals devoted most of time to feed intake (47,76 %), lying (22,02 %), stall (20,55 %) and physical activity (6,11 %).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:179844 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Svobodová, Tereza |
| 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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