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Precision Livestock Farming Technologies [PDF]
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is core to satisfying the ever increasing world-wide demand for dairy products of good quality and societal concerns over animal welfare and health, whilst heavily reducing environmental load and resource use. The features ofan Internet-of-Things (IoT) inspired platform with the capability to provision of a range of ...
Andonovic, Ivan +5 more
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Short Communication: The effect of age on young sheep biometric identification
Biometric identification provides an important tool for precision livestock farming. This study investigates the effect of weight gain and sheep maturation on recognition performance.
A. Hitelman +5 more
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Glaesserella parasuis (G. parasuis) can elicit meningitis in pigs; however, the pathogenic mechanisms of meningitis induced by G. parasuis remain unclear. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been proven to play key roles in a variety of physiological and
Peiyan Sun +12 more
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Assessment of Hematologic and Biochemical Parameters for Healthy Commercial Pigs in China
Hematologic and biochemical data are useful for indicating disease diagnosis and growth performance in swine. However, the assessment of these parameters in healthy commercial pigs is rare in China.
Shuo Zhang +6 more
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A machine vision system to predict individual cow feed intake of different feeds in a cowshed
Data on individual feed intake of dairy cows, an important variable for farm management, are currently unavailable in commercial dairies. A real-time machine vision system including models that are able to adapt to multiple types of feed was developed to
M. Saar +5 more
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Due to its detrimental effect on cow welfare, health and production, lameness in dairy cows has received quite a lot of attention in the last few decades—not only in terms of prevention and treatment of lameness but also in terms of detection, as early ...
Annelies Van Nuffel +7 more
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This study aimed to measure protein deposition (PD) in pigs fed with daily tailored diets where either dietary lysine (Lys) or threonine (Thr) were provided at independent levels (ignoring an ideal ratio).
Aline Remus +3 more
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Precision livestock farming for pigs [PDF]
sponsorship: This paper is based upon experience from and research within the EU-PLF project. This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 311825. (European Union|311825)
Vranken, Erik, Dries, Berckmans
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Using precision livestock farming for dairy herd management
The aim of this study was to validate selected precision livestock farming (PLF) methods of nutrition and feeding management of high-yielding Holstein dairy cows. In a feeding trial with 36 dairy cows, the effect of replacing 0.1 kg of sodium bicarbonate
Radko Loučka +13 more
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