Name: conformation_bcs Description: Body Condition Score (BCS) collected from BCS cameras places at the exit of the Milking Parlour & at the exit of the Voluntary Milking System (VMS). Data collection happens after milkings (Parlour and VMS), after foot bath (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons) or at another time when animals are individually brought to the walk-over scale. Classification: RDF402 Author: Michelle Edwards Author Email: edwardsm@uoguelph.ca
Moment the score was measured (During milking time, foot bath or other time)
date
Date
Date of Event
raw_bcs
Raw Body Condition Score
Body Condition Score (BCS) estimated through a BCS 3D camera. Score goes from 1 to 5.
source
Source
Source/Location of the BCS camera (Parlour, Robot, or Heifer barn)
source_id
Source ID
Source ID. 1 = Parlour, 2 = Foot Bath or Other, 3 = Voluntary Milking System
time
Time
Time the animal’s RFID was read when passing through the BCS camera, without time zone.
International schema information
Language
Name
Description
English
conformation_bcs
Body Condition Score (BCS) collected from BCS cameras places at the exit of the Milking Parlour & at the exit of the Voluntary Milking System (VMS). Data collection happens after milkings (Parlour and VMS), after foot bath (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons) or at another time when animals are individually brought to the walk-over scale.
Language-independent schema details
Attribute
Sensitive
Unit
Type
Character encoding
animal_id
false
Numeric
utf-8
collection_moment
false
Text
utf-8
date
false
DateTime
utf-8
raw_bcs
false
Numeric
utf-8
source
false
Text
utf-8
source_id
false
Numeric
utf-8
time
false
DateTime
utf-8
Language-specific schema details
English
Attribute
Label
Description
List
animal_id
Animal ID
Farm-level unique animal ID
Not a list
collection_moment
Collection Moment
Moment the score was measured (During milking time, foot bath or other time)
Not a list
date
Date
Date of Event
Not a list
raw_bcs
Raw Body Condition Score
Body Condition Score (BCS) estimated through a BCS 3D camera. Score goes from 1 to 5.
Not a list
source
Source
Source/Location of the BCS camera (Parlour, Robot, or Heifer barn)
Not a list
source_id
Source ID
Source ID. 1 = Parlour, 2 = Foot Bath or Other, 3 = Voluntary Milking System
Not a list
time
Time
Time the animal’s RFID was read when passing through the BCS camera, without time zone.