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AfiFarm | AfiCollar User Guide
7 Identifying Group Feeding Problems
Eating and rumination are critical aspects of a dairy cow's life. Any deficit of this activity directly, or indirectly, indicates that a problem has
occurred.
Rumination/eating deficits can occur for many reasons, some examples include:
• Late distribution of feed,
• Change in the size or composition of feed,
• Feed is out of reach,
• Defective/moldy feed.
AfiFarm uses eating and rumination times of a group, measured by AfiCollar, to indicate (directly or indirectly), that such a deficit has occurred.
These are reported in the Group Digestion report, which provides alerts to groups that may have a feeding problem.
Each line in the report represents a group and its rumination and eating times.
Every substantial deficit at the group level is displayed in red. Use the report as a prompt to investigate what alterations to the group's nutritional
regime may have caused the rumination or eating changes.