Assessment of the Effectiveness of a Portable NIRS Instrument in Controlling the Mixer Wagon Tuning and Ration Management.
Lorenzo ServaLuisa MagrinGiorgio MarchesiniIgino AndrighettoPublished in: Animals : an open access journal from MDPI (2021)
The adoption of the mixer wagon and total mixed ration aimed to decrease dysmetabolic diseases and improve feed efficiency in dairy cows. Differences between theoretical and eaten diets are imputable to errors in diet preparation or cow feed sorting. We proposed a method to measure the chemical composition and particle size distribution of the ration and determined its peNDF content through a portable Near Infra-Red spectrophotometer that allowed the calculation of two indexes: the homogeneity and the sorting indexes. In a cohort of 19 Italian Holstein breeding farms, we studied the correlation of these indexes with the mixer wagon settings. Determination coefficients in the validation (R v 2 ) for dry matter, crude protein, aNDF, and starch were 0.91, 0.54, 0.86, and 0.67, respectively. The ration fractions (%, w / w of wet weight) retained by the 3.8 and 1.8 mm sieves, and the bottom showed R v 2 of 0.46, 0.49, and 0.53, respectively. The homogeneity index regressed negatively with the mixer wagon load fullness (R 2 = 0.374). The homogeneity-binary classification showed an odds ratio of 1.72 for dry matter and 0.39 for aNDF ( p < 0.05). The sorting-binary classification showed an odds ratio of 2.54 for aNDF ( p < 0.05). The studied farms showed low peNDF values (median = 17.9%).
Keyphrases
- dairy cows
- resting state
- weight loss
- machine learning
- deep learning
- functional connectivity
- physical activity
- randomized controlled trial
- molecularly imprinted
- ionic liquid
- systematic review
- patient safety
- low cost
- heat stress
- solid phase extraction
- solid state
- adverse drug
- weight gain
- amino acid
- patient reported outcomes
- mass spectrometry
- binding protein
- small molecule