AIMC Topic: Animal Husbandry

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Invited review: integration of technologies and systems for precision animal agriculture-a case study on precision dairy farming.

Journal of animal science
Precision livestock farming (PLF) offers a strategic solution to enhance the management capacity of large animal groups, while simultaneously improving profitability, efficiency, and minimizing environmental impacts associated with livestock producti...

Forecasting the milk yield of cows on farms equipped with automatic milking system with the use of decision trees.

Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho
The purpose of this paper was to utilize the decision trees technique to determine the factors responsible for high monthly milk yield in Polish Holstein-Friesian cows from 27 herds equipped with milking robots. The applied statistical method-the dec...

A review of traditional and machine learning methods applied to animal breeding.

Animal health research reviews
The current livestock management landscape is transitioning to a high-throughput digital era where large amounts of information captured by systems of electro-optical, acoustical, mechanical, and biosensors is stored and analyzed on a daily and hourl...

Effect of postweaning heifer development system on average daily gain, pregnancy rates, and subsequent feed efficiency as a pregnant heifer.

Journal of animal science
A 3-yr study utilized 300 Angus-based, spring-born heifers to evaluate postweaning heifer development systems on gain, reproductive performance, and feed efficiency as a pregnant heifer. Heifers were blocked by BW and randomly assigned to graze corn ...

Automation: robots in the vivarium.

Lab animal
Automation technologies are improving efficiency in the vivarium and helping institutions keep up with the growing number of mutant rodents in their colonies.