SHORT COMMUNICATION: Validation of a novel milk progesterone based tool to monitor luteolysis in dairy cows. Performance on cost-effective, on-farm measured data [article]

Ines Adriaens, Wouter Saeys, Katleen Geerinckx, Bart De Ketelaere, Ben Aernouts
2019 bioRxiv   pre-print
Recently, a novel progesterone-based monitoring algorithm using synergistic control, PMASC, was developed. This algorithm employs the known luteal dynamics of the progesterone profile to estimate the moment of luteolysis with minimal dependence on the absolute measurement values. As its value and implementability strongly dependends on the number of samples it requires to obtain the desired accuracy, its performance on cost-effective, smart sampled and on-farm measured data is demonstrated.
doi:10.1101/526061 fatcat:65d3zir5tfavticihlr3fhks5m