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The Use of an Automated System GreenFeed to Monitor Enteric Methane and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Ruminant Animals
Published on: September 7, 2015
Technical note: Interchangeability and comparison of methane measurements in dairy cows with 2 noninvasive infrared
M Sypniewski1, T Strabel1, A Cieslak2
1Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wołyńska 33, 60-637 Poznań, Poland.
Abstract:
This study aimed to compare measurements of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the breath of dairy cows kept in commercial conditions using the Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and nondispersive infrared spectroscopy (NDIR) methods. The measurement systems were installed in an automated milking system. Measurements were carried out for 5 d using both systems during milkings. The measurements were averaged per milking, giving 467 observations of CH4 and CO2 concentrations of 44 Holstein Friesian cows. The Pearson correlation between observations from the 2 systems was 0.86 for CH4, 0.84 for CO2, and 0.88 for their ratio. The repeatability of FTIR (0.53 for CH4, 0.57 for CO2, and 0.28 for their ratio) was somewhat higher than that of NDIR (0.57 for CH4, 0.47 for CO2, and 0.25 for their ratio). The coefficient of individual agreement was 0.98 for CH4, 0.89 for CO2, and 0.89 for their ratio; the concordance correlation coefficient was 0.48 for both gases and 0.24 for their ratio. We showed that FTIR and NDIR give similar results in commercial farm conditions. They can therefore be used interchangeably to generate a larger data set, which could then be further used for genetic evaluation.
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