Behaviour | Explanation |
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1. Physical contact with the animals | Patting, brushing, washing, looking after=?, nursing, or saddling or riding horses. |
2. Communication | Verbalization, visual contact. |
3. Moving the animals | Behaviours that include moving animals between different places in the cowshed, and between different pastures. |
4. Feeding | Feeding adult animals with concentrate or forage, or milk feeding the small animals. |
5. Go/stand/run or sit down | The participants moved around in the cowshed to bring tools and straw to clean the boxes, or remained inactive. |
6. Cleaning | Cleaning the cowshed or washing buckets and bottles. |
7. Milking | All routines connected to the milking procedure. |
8. Receiving instructions | Receiving instructions from the farmer. |
9. Various | Behaviours that occur rarely, like filming the animals or taking pictures of the animals. |
10. Threatening behaviour directed from the animals. | Receiving threatening or aggressive behaviour or signals from the animals. |