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Vivi M. Thorup Incoming to: INRA (Jouy-en-Josas), MoSAR, Paris, France Developing new methodology for extracting precision phenotypes from on-farm technology: A systemic modelling approach using accelerometers to derive behavioural indicators for dairy cow health and feeding status

Annual Meeting of AgreenSkills, Toulouse, 28 October, 2014

MoSAR – Modélisation Systémique Appliquée aux Ruminants

Head of unit & scientific mentor: Dr. Nicolas Friggens MoSAR: an INRA-AgroParisTech mixed research unit, which brings together researchers and lecturers with animal nutrition, behaviour, rumen physiology, lipid metabolism, and modelling backgrounds. Common research theme: Quantitative description of the processes by which ruminants acquire, ingest, digest, metabolise, and partition resources (feed and body reserves) to production and other life functions.

Background

• MSc Biology (ethology)
• PhD ‘Biomechanical Gait Analysis in Pigs’
• Researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2007-2013 (minus 2 years of

maternity leave): A) Modelling dairy cow energy balance from live weights and body condition B) Developing automatic detection of dairy cow lameness using force plates Precision Livestock Farming

AgreenSkills post doc project

Why: Diseases like mastitis and lameness are frequent & affect the cow’s welfare & milk production What: Using accelerometers to derive behavioural indicators for individual dairy cow health to be used on-farm How: Derive time-budget from accelerometer -> validate using other technologies

• > characterise individual cow phenotype -> detect changes early -> alert farmer

This behavioural phenotyping will also be useful for genetic selection

Publications 2014

PAPERS

• 1. Thorup, V M, L Munksgaard, P-E Robert, H W Erhard, P T Thomsen and N Friggens. The effect of locomotion

score on the accelerometer activities of cows on four commercial dairy farms (submitted to Animal).

• 2. Thorup, V M, O F Nascimento, F Skjøth, M Voigt, M D Rasmussen, T W Bennedsgaard and K L Ingvartsen.
• 2014. Short communication: Gait symmetry changes in healthy and lame dairy cows based on 3-dimensional

ground reaction force curves following claw trimming. Journal of Dairy Science 97 (in press). ABSTRACTS

• 1. Thorup, V M, H W Erhard, P-E Robert, L Munksgaard and N Friggens. 2014. Les relations entre les variables

accélérométriques mesurées sur des vaches dans quatre exploitations laitières. 21e journées 3R (Rencontres, Recherches, Ruminants), Paris, France, Dec. 3-4 (accepted).

• 2. Thorup, V M, P-E Robert, L Munksgaard, H W Erhard and N Friggens. 2014. How are dairy cow accelerometer

activity changes related to visual gait score changes? Proceedings of WAFL, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Sept. 3-5, p. 149.

• 3. Thorup, V M, L Munksgaard, P-E Robert, H W Erhard and N Friggens. 2014. Accelerometer based activity

parameters in relation to dairy cow lameness on four commercial farms. Proceedings of First DairyCare Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 22-23, p. 62. COST Action FA1308, ISBN 978-0-9930176-0-5.

• 4. Friggens, N and V M Thorup. 2014. Towards a systemic use of precision livestock measures and precision

phenotyping in dairy herds. Proceedings of First DairyCare Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 22-23, p.

• 32. COST Action FA1308, ISBN 978-0-9930176-0-5.

Other activities 2014

• Management committee member & chairman for working group ‘Activity

based welfare monitoring’ in DairyCare COST Action (FA1308), March 2014 – ongoing

• Course participation: An Introduction to Modelling for Biologists, MoSAR
• Course participation: From Data to Predictive Modelling, AgreenSkills
• Guest lecture on ‘Lameness Detection’ in: Precision Livestock Farming

course for 3rd year students at AgroParisTech

• Co-supervisor on master project ‘Lameness in Dairy Cows’ for veterinary

student at École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse