The aim of the present study was to evaluate empirically confusion matrices in device
validation. We compared the confusion matrix method to linear regression and error indices …

Infectious diseases, particularly bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and neonatal calf diarrhea
(NCD), are prevalent in calves. Efficient health-monitoring tools to identify such diseases on …

Evidence exists that early life experiences may influence development of characteristic
feeding patterns in dairy cattle. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of milk …

This study investigated how social housing affects pre-and postweaning feeding behavior
and social feeding preferences of dairy calves. Twenty Holstein bull calves were housed …

The objective of this study was to assess the effect of different feed types and method of feed
presentation in the first 12 wk of life on the feeding behavior, intake, and growth of calves fed …

We investigated the effect of social housing on the behavioral, intake, and physiological
changes that occur at weaning for dairy calves fed milk ad libitum. These changes were …

Most US dairy calves are raised in individual hutches for biocontainment purposes and to
facilitate monitoring and handling of calves. However, individual hutches typically restrict …

Automated milk feeders offer flexibility to feed calves high milk allowances, to change the
daily quantity of milk offered, and also to dispense additives like probiotics on an individual …

The aim of this study was to evaluate differences in behavioral responses of individually
housed dairy-beef crossbred calves to standardized personality tests (novel person, novel …

Recording behavior at fixed intervals (instantaneous sampling) can reduce labor relative to
observing continuously. However, instantaneous sampling may inaccurately estimate …