- Foreword
- Ethics in experiments on live cattle: a pragmatic approach
- Feed and water intake
- Reproductive assessment
- Bodyweight, body condition and anatomy
- Body temperature and thermal imaging
- Rumen fluid sampling via oral stomach tubing method
- Ruminal pH
- Stress and health assessment
- Nutrient digestibility and balance studies
- Milk intake, body anatomy and composition in calves
- The gas recovery test of respiratory chambers
- Respiratory chamber facility
- Greenfeed system
- Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) tracer technique
- A checklist to validate sensor output for the recording of cattle behaviour
- Behavioural tests
- Lying, standing and eating behaviour
- Rumination Activity
- Lameness detection and scoring