An overview of the current trends in precision pig farming technologies

C Tzanidakis, P Simitzis, K Arvanitis, P Panagakis - Livestock Science, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Animal board invited review: Quantification of resilience in farm animals

M Taghipoor, M Pastell, O Martin, HN Ba, J van Milgen… - animal, 2023 - Elsevier
Resilience, when defined as the capacity of an animal to respond to short-term
environmental challenges and to return to the prechallenge status, is a dynamic and …

[HTML][HTML] Exploration of variance, autocorrelation, and skewness of deviations from lactation curves as resilience indicators for breeding

M Poppe, RF Veerkamp, ML Van Pelt… - Journal of Dairy Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The ability of a cow to cope with environmental disturbances, such as pathogens or heat
waves, is called resilience. To improve resilience through breeding, we need resilience …

Body weight deviations as indicator for resilience in layer chickens

TVL Berghof, H Bovenhuis, HA Mulder - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Resilience is the capacity of an animal to be minimally affected by disturbances or to rapidly
return to the state pertained before exposure to a disturbance. Less resilient animals are …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of resilience indicators by estimating genetic correlations among daughter groups and with yield responses to a heat wave and disturbances at …

M Poppe, HA Mulder, RF Veerkamp - Journal of Dairy Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Resilient cows are minimally affected in their functioning by disturbances, and if affected,
they quickly recover. Previously, the variance and autocorrelation of daily deviations from a …

Resilience: reference measures based on longer-term consequences are needed to unlock the potential of precision livestock farming technologies for quantifying this …

NC Friggens, I Adriaens, R Boré… - Peer Community …, 2022 - peercommunityjournal.org
Climate change, with its increasing frequency of environmental disturbances puts pressures
on the livestock sector. To deal with these pressures, more complex traits such as resilience …

The fecal microbiota of piglets during weaning transition and its association with piglet growth across various farm environments

D Luise, M Le Sciellour, A Buchet, R Resmond… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This study describes the fecal microbiota from piglets reared in different living environments
during the weaning transition, and presents the characteristics of microbiota associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Lactation curve model with explicit representation of perturbations as a phenotyping tool for dairy livestock precision farming

AB Abdelkrim, L Puillet, P Gomes, O Martin - Animal, 2021 - Elsevier
In the context of dairy farming, ruminant females often face challenges inducing
perturbations that affect their performance and welfare. A key issue is how to assess the …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring simultaneous perturbation profiles in milk yield and body weight reveals a diversity of animal responses and new opportunities to identify resilience …

AB Abdelkrim, T Tribout, O Martin, D Boichard… - Journal of Dairy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Livestock husbandry aims to manage the environment in which animals are reared to
enable them to express their production potential. However, animals are often confronted …

[HTML][HTML] Emphasis on resilience in dairy cattle breeding: Possibilities and consequences

C Bengtsson, JR Thomasen, M Kargo, A Bouquet… - Journal of Dairy …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aimed to investigate dairy cattle breeding goals with more emphasis on
resilience. We simulated the consequences of increasing weight on resilience indicators …