Dairy herd bunching metrics and ambient temperatures

Chopra, Kareemah and Codling, Edward A. 2023. Dairy herd bunching metrics and ambient temperatures. [Dataset]. Colchester, University of Essex. 10.5526/ERDR-00000180

A real-time local positioning system was used to track the spatial position and activity of a commercial dairy herd (c100 cows) in a freestall barn continuously at high temporal resolution. Bunching was determined using four different spatial measures determined on an hourly b100asis: herd full and core range size, mean herd inter-cow distance (ICD), and mean herd nearest neighbor distance (NND). Wall-mounted temperature sensors automatically recorded the ambient barn temperature (BT) continuously throughout the study period. A mean hourly measurement was calculated across all sensors (n = 26 sensors, where n = 22 recorded every eight seconds and n = four recorded every hour).

Creators:

Creators Name	Email	Affiliation	ORCID
Chopra, Kareemah	km19088@essex.ac.uk	University of Essex	https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1427-3384
Codling, Edward A.	ecodling@essex.ac.uk	University of Essex	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5124-3334