The drawing on the left shows the area where heifers were trained. Anticipatory and play behaviors were recorded in the “start box” (area B in the diagram) while cattle were waiting to enter the ...

You can lead a cow to a water closet, but can you make it pee there? It turns out that yes, you can. “I’m always of the mind, how can we get animals to help us in their management?” says Lindsay ...

Cows can really whiz. A superfluous observation, except for the fact that when bovines urinate, they shoot out nitrogen that can combine with feces to become ammonia. When this ammonia is mixed with ...

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Potty training cattle sounds like a joke but it’s no laughing matter — because cow pee creates nitrous oxide (laughing gas), and lots of it. Cattle manure, mainly urine, excreted directly onto pasture ...

Dairy cows receive a huge amount of care during their lives on a farm, but procedures, especially restraining during procedures, can be stressful for some animals. Positive reinforcement training -- ...