Early detection of health and welfare compromises in commercial piggeries is essential for
timely intervention to enhance treatment success, reduce impact on welfare, and promote …

Large-scale phenotyping of animal behaviour traits is time consuming and has led to
increased demand for technologies that can automate these procedures. Automated …

Livestock production to provide food for a growing world population, with increasing demand
for meat and milk products, has led to a rapid growth in the scale of cattle and pig …

Abstract Information on the daily growth rate of pigs enables the stockman to monitor their
performance and health and to predict and control their market weight and date. Manual …

Pig lying patterns can provide information on environmental factors affecting production
efficiency, health and welfare. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using …

Excessive mounting behaviours amongst pigs cause a high risk of poor welfare, arising from
skin lesions, lameness and stress, and economic losses from reduced performance. The aim …

Simple Summary Strategy for the protection and welfare of farm animals, and the
sustainable animal production is dependent on the thorough understanding of the …

Recording sow behaviors allows tracking their health status, the timely detection of
abnormalities, and provides assistance to increase their health both physically and mentally …

Simple Summary The continuous development of innovative technologies and the large-
scale implementation of these solutions on farms are dynamically influencing the so-called …

Highlights•Video spatial temporal features are proposed to recognise pig mounting
behaviour.•A pig detector is constructed based on Faster R–CNN.•XGBoost is applied to …