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Poultry welfare monitoring: group-level technologies

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Commercial poultry are frequently kept in groups of thousands of individuals where tagging or identifying every bird is logistically impossible. Group, rather than individual, level approaches to a...
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Commercial poultry are frequently kept in groups of thousands of individuals where tagging or identifying every bird is logistically impossible. Group, rather than individual, level approaches to assessing their health and welfare are therefore currently the most feasible. This chapter covers the most commonly used ways of automating welfare assessment for poultry with particular emphasis on broiler chickens and the use of visual images from cctv and video, sound and temperature sensing. A specific example of camera technology to detect flocks with high levels of hockburn and other health issues is described. Despite considerable potential for using technology to assess poultry welfare it is not currently widely used in practice. Reasons for this and the potential costs and benefits of applying Precision Livestock Farming to poultry are discussed in relation to the importance of making sure that technology is used to improve rather than diminish animal welfare.
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Price: £25.00
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Publication Date: 28 September 2020
ISBN: 9781786768704
Format: eBook
BISACs:

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, Poultry farming, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture, Animal husbandry, Sustainable agriculture

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  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Types of automated assessment
  • 3 Automated measures of welfare as part of precision farming
  • 4 Why isnt automated welfare assessment more widely used?
  • 5 Conclusions
  • 6 Future trends
  • 7 References