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This book chapter aims to define the relationships between animal vocalisations and chicken diseases and welfare, whilst highlighting the novel technologies for their detection. The chapter begins with a general introduction to the use of Precision Livestock Farming technologies, and in particular bioacoustics, for monitoring the health status of broilers through the analysis of their vocalizations. The most common acoustic features of broiler chickens to describe their calls are then detailed, followed by sections on how call detectors can be used for disease detection and tracking animal behaviour in. Finally, a case study on detecting prolonged fasting vocalisations in newly hatched chickens is covered.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Acoustic features of broilers
- 3 Animal disease detector
- 4 Tracking of animal behaviour
- 5 Case study
- 6 Conclusion and future trends
- 7 Where to look for further information
- 8 References