Objective estimation of body condition score by modeling cow body shape from digital images
The aim of the present study was to develop a technique to model the body shape of a cow from which learned parameters could be used in BCS estimation. A further objective was to build a benchmark data set useful for dairy cattle research purposes, available.
through the Internet.
Associations of breed and feeding management with milk production
The objective of this study was to identify sources of variation able to explain differences between herds in milk and milk component production curves obtained from routine evaluation software.
Prevalence of Mastitis Pathogens in Ragusa, Sicily, from 2000 to 2006
The objective of this study was to report the prevalence of intramammary infections (IMI) in Ragusa, Sicily, from milk samples (n = 18,711) collected between October 2000 and June 2006 from 101 dairy herds.
Body Condition Assessment Using Digital Images
The purpose of this project was to assess the utility of using digital or video images to evaluate the BCS of a group of cows. Our second aim was to construct a model to determine the sample size needed to estimate the mean BCS of
a group of dairy cows.
