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The aim of the present study was to investigate the temporal pattern of feed and waterintake behaviour of gestating sows housed in a dynamic group. The dataset included 90sows (parity 1 to 7). Feed and water intake were recorded by electronic feeding and drinkingstations. To describe the feed and water intake behaviour single visits were combined intomeals and drinking bouts. A log survivorship function identified the characteristic intervallength to differentiate between two bouts. Interval lengths larger than 12 min separated twomeals (29 min two drinking bouts). The meal and drinking bout criteria were used to derivethe following traits: feeding and drinking duration per day (FD, DD), interval duration withinfeeding (pauseF) or drinking (pauseW) meal, feeding and drinking meal duration per day(FMD, DMD) and feeding and drinking visits per day (FV, DV). Additionally, an eating rank wascalculated according to the order of the sows at the feeding station. The results showed thatnulliparous and primiparous sows had higher FD, pauseF, FMD and FV in contrast to biparousand multiparous sows (<i>P</i><0.05). The DD of primiparous sows was significantly lower thanthat of older sows. The eating rank increased over time while nulliparous sows increasedtheir rank more slowly than older sows. Low to moderate repeatabilities were found for feedintake traits (0.23 to 0.41); higher repeatabilities for drinking traits (0.45 to 0.55) and eatingrank (0.71) indicating high variation between sows, which could be used for the identificationof diseases

Temporal pattern of feeding and drinking behaviour of gestating sows