Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Feb 10, 2025
Appropriate and adequate feeding is essential to maintaining good health, productivity and welfare of dairy cows. Within automatic milking systems, concentrate feed is offered inside the milking robot, and is thought to play a key role in motivating ...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Nov 22, 2024
Detecting early-stage stress in broiler farms is crucial for optimising growth rates and animal well-being. This study aims to classify various stress calls in broilers exposed to cold, heat, or wind, using acoustic signal processing and a transforme...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Sep 16, 2024
The feed efficiency (FE) expresses as the amount of feed required per unit of BW gain. Since feed cost is the major input cost in the mink industry, evaluating of FE is a crucial step for competitiveness of the mink industry. However, the FE measures...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Jun 15, 2023
Accurate identification of individual animals plays a pivotal role in enhancing animal welfare and optimising farm production. Although Radio Frequency Identification technology has been widely applied in animal identification, this method still exhi...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Apr 17, 2023
Mathematical modeling is typically framed as the art of reductionism of scientific knowledge into an arithmetical layout. However, most untrained people get the art of modeling wrong and end up neglecting it because modeling is not simply about writi...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Sep 29, 2022
Mastitis is one of the most common diseases in dairy cows and has a negative impact on their welfare and life, causing significant economic losses to the dairy industry. Many attempts have been made to develop a detection method for mastitis using th...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Dec 10, 2020
Stretching behavior is one of the broiler comfort behaviors that could be used for animal welfare assessment. However, there is currently no methodology for automatic monitoring of stretching behavior under representative production practices. The ob...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Jan 13, 2020
Worldwide, there is a trend towards increased herd sizes, and the animal-to-stockman ratio is increasing within the beef and dairy sectors; thus, the time available to monitoring individual animals is reducing. The behaviour of cows is known to chang...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Oct 11, 2019
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) able to describe population differences can be used for important applications in livestock, including breed assignment of individual animals, authentication of mono-breed products and parentage verification amo...
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience
Nov 21, 2018
Achieving a consistent level of robot utilisation throughout 24 h maximises automatic milking system (AMS) utilisation. However, levels of robot utilisation in the early morning hours are typically low, caused by the diurnal feeding behaviour of cows...