The development of intersucking in dairy calves around weaning

Keil, Nina M.; Langhans, Wolfgang

doi:10.1016/s0168-1591(00)00207-0

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“…Alternatively, it has been suggested that hunger may also control the level of non-nutritive sucking and possibly cross-sucking (Jensen, 2003). This idea is consistent with the observations that the duration of unrewarded visits to an automatic feeding station increased during gradual weaning (Jensen and Holm, 2003), and that under practical farm conditions the frequency of cross-sucking among dairy calves around weaning is increased with decreasing availability or energy density of solid feeds (Keil et al, 2000;Keil and Langhans, 2001).…”

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission related with the risks of poor welfare in intensive calf farming systems

2006

EFSA Journal

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission related with the risks of poor welfare in intensive calf farming systems

2006

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“…The only difference from the A2 treatment was the number of meals during rearing treatment. Yet a greater number of meals may even result in a higher level of frustration as compared to twice-daily meals, because the amount of milk per meal is lower and thus unsatisfied hunger and sucking motivation may increase (Keil and Langhans, 2001;MillerChuson et al, 2012;Roth et al, 2009b). Further studies with a higher number of animals are needed to examine the possible long-term effects of such differences in rearing management.…”

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Effects of mother versus artificial rearing during the first 12 weeks of life on challenge responses of dairy cows

Wagner

Seitner

Barth

et al. 2015

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

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“…Intersucking in heifers and cows is defined as sucking the udder or udder area in all age groups (Lidfors & Isberg 2003). Intersucking has been suggested to develop from cross‐sucking in calves (Špinka 1992; Keil & Langhans 2001). In the study of Keil et al.…”

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“…Cross‐sucking and intersucking are common problems in dairy farming (Keil & Langhans 2001; Lidfors & Isberg 2003). Both behaviours are relevant with respect to animal health and welfare.…”

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Genetic parameters for abnormal sucking traits in Austrian Fleckvieh heifers

Fuerst-Waltl

Rinnhofer

Fuerst³

et al. 2010

J Animal Breeding Genetics

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Cross-sucking and intersucking are considered abnormal behaviours in cattle and constitute a common problem in dairy farming. Cross-sucking in calves is defined as sucking any body parts of another calf whereas intersucking in heifers and cows is defined as sucking the udder or udder area. The aim of this study was to determine the genetic variability for abnormal sucking behaviour by estimating genetic parameters and examining individual differences between sires with large progeny groups. By means of a questionnaire, cattle breeders in the federal state Lower Austria were requested to identify all currently kept animals which are known of either inter- or cross-sucking (both defined as the same binary trait 'sucking' with 0 and 1 referring to the absence and presence of this abnormal behaviour) or allowing sucking (also treated as a binary trait, scored as 1 if an animal was known of allowing herd mates to suck and 0 otherwise). Records of 1222 farms and 13,332 dual purpose Simmental females aged between 21 and 700 days were investigated applying a linear animal model with fixed herd x year x season and random genetic animal effect and a threshold sire model with the herd x year x season effect being treated as random. In total, 8.6% and 4.1% of all calves/heifers were observed sucking and allowing sucking, respectively. Heritabilities of 0.040 +/- 0.014 and 0.007 +/- 0.006 (linear animal model) and 0.116 +/- 0.041 and 0.026 +/- 0.024 (threshold model) were found for the traits sucking and allowing sucking, respectively. Breeding values were estimated applying the same models for the trait sucking. Taking all 254 sires into account, the Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients between breeding values estimated by linear animal and sire threshold model were 0.86 and 0.80. Thus, little difference was observed between the two methods.

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The development of intersucking in dairy calves around weaning

Cited by 40 publications

References 17 publications

Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission related with the risks of poor welfare in intensive calf farming systems

Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission related with the risks of poor welfare in intensive calf farming systems

Effects of mother versus artificial rearing during the first 12 weeks of life on challenge responses of dairy cows

Genetic parameters for abnormal sucking traits in Austrian Fleckvieh heifers

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