Peer-Review Record
Validation of an Accelerometer Sensor-Based Collar for Monitoring Grazing and Rumination Behaviours in Grazing Dairy Cows
Animals 2021, 11(9), 2724; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11092724
Reviewer 1:
Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Anonymous
Animals 2021, 11(9), 2724; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11092724
Submission received: 31 August 2021
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Revised: 11 September 2021
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Accepted: 14 September 2021
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Published: 17 September 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Animal Activity in Farms)
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors,
You included the reviewers' suggestions in your manuscript. Nice, I have no further comments.
Kind regards
Author Response
- You included the reviewers' suggestions in your manuscript. Nice, I have no further comments.
RE: No changes made
Thank you very much for taking the time to review this article and for the kind suggestions to improve it.
Regards
Reviewer 2 Report
The text needs improvement. Sentences should be clear in their messages. Some notes are on the manuscript.
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
Thank you very much for taking your time to review this article and for the kind suggestions to improve it. The comments have been addressed below.
Regards
- The text needs improvement. Sentences should be clear in their messages. Some notes are on the manuscript.
RE: Introduction was improved, and new references were added, see lines 59-60, 62. Overall text was also improved see lines 66, 71, 90, 119-122, 129-130. Changes were also made to clarify the sentences, see the lines 154, 172-174, 137, 193-195, 198-199, 220-228, 230-232, 241-244, 304-306, 361-365, 371-75, 382-384, Conclusion was revised, see lines 458-474. - Line 68: add various at the start of the sentence
RE: Added as suggested, see line 78 - Line 76: add “respective algorithms exist”
RE: added as suggested, see lines 88 - Line 76: Add “them into”
RE: Added as suggested, see line 88 - Line 77: Use record instead of measure
RE: Revised as suggested, see line 90 - Line 91: Use the instead of therefore
RE: revised as suggested, see line 106 - Lin 93: use but instead of therefore
RE: revised as suggested, see line 109 - Line 115: is this the daily yield ? is this the milking period average ?
RE: This is mil, revised as suggested, see line 137 - Line 124: use had instead of provided with
RE: revised as suggested see line 146 - Line 164: use fitted with instead of wearing
RE: revised as suggested see line 133 - Line 194: Add “suggested by Laurance and Kei”
RE: revised as suggested, see lines 244-245 - Line 216: add that
RE: added, see line 267 - Line 267: add earlier
RE: revised as suggested see line 338 - Line 270: remove grazing
RE: removed as suggested, see line 342 - Line 276: use between
RE: revised as suggested see line 351.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
