A systematic review synthesizing evidence from 81 studies on management interventions to reduce non-nutritive oral behaviors in pre-weaned dairy calves. The dataset, created by Christina R. Doelling, was last updated in May 2026. It likely contains coded results evaluating the effects of feeding methods, dam-rearing, and weaning practices.
Use Cases
- Compare the effectiveness of different milk-feeding systems based on the review of teat flow rates and meal sizes.
- Evaluate the impact of dam-rearing versus artificial rearing on cross-sucking risk as synthesized from the literature.
- Assess the role of forage provision and gradual weaning strategies in reducing non-nutritive oral behaviors.
- Identify research gaps concerning breed, individual, and social factors affecting calf behavior.
Strengths
- Synthesizes findings from 81 distinct studies, providing a broad evidence base.
- Focuses on a specific, well-defined problem in animal husbandry: non-nutritive oral behaviors.
- Provides concrete, quantified recommendations (e.g., ≥20% of body weight of milk/d) derived from the review.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The data represents a synthesis of author conclusions, not raw experimental observations.
Provenance
- Source
- Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Systematic literature review and synthesis of author conclusions.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-16 04:10:21; freshness should be verified.