User's Manual

6 Lying Behaviour

6.1 Lying behaviour for the individual cow

For the individual cow, CowAlert provides:

• Cow-level: Graphical overview of lying time and average lying time (Activity graphs)

• Cow-level: Total Lying time per day, and as a 7 and 14 day average (table located below

activity graph for the specific cow) and as a graphical view (Behaviour view option on

Activity graph)

• Cow-level: Number of lying bouts each day. A lying bout is when a cow changes from

standing to lying to standing. (table located below activity graph for the specific cow)

• Herd-level: average number of hours the herd is lying.

• Typically she will have a very similar number of bouts each day and any change to that may

indicate a potential problem.

Below is an example of an Hours graph, showing only the MotionIndex and the lying/standing

patterns. Note the increased activity and increased standing time associated with the Heat event.

The steps and downloads are hidden by deselecting them in the key.

Hours graph with

Steps and Downloads

hidden from view by

clicking on those

headings