Pig weight measurement is essential for monitoring performance, welfare, and production
value. Weight measurement using a scale provides the most accurate results; however, it is …

In the trend of large‐scale and intensive livestock farming, it has become difficult to monitor
the physical health and breeding performance of animals accurately, quickly, and …

Continuous monitoring of pig posture is important for better understanding animal behavior.
Previous studies focused on day recordings and did not investigate how deep learning …

Pig farming is one of the most technologically advanced and continuously growing
production sectors. As the pig herds grow larger and at the same time the number of farmers …

The productivity and profitability of poultry farming are crucial to support its affordability
issues in food security. Criteria in productivity measurement, including Feed Conversion …

Modern welfare definitions not only require that the Five Freedoms are met, but animals
should also be able to adapt to changes (ie, resilience) and reach a state that the animals …

Changes in regulations for livestock animals will in the near future call for loose-house pig
breeding systems. These new systems will increase the workload for the farmers, as location …

The goal of this study was to develop an automated monitoring system for the detection of
pigs' bodies, heads and tails. The aim in the first part of the study was to recognize individual …

Several precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies, conceived for optimizing farming
processes, are developed to detect the physical and behavioral changes of animals …

It was demonstrated that laboratory-developed precision livestock farming (PLF) tools can
be fully operational on farms and can bring value to the farmers and other stakeholders in …