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

Economic pressures continue to mount on modern-day livestock farmers, forcing them to
increase herds sizes in order to be commercially viable. The natural consequence of this is …

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 …

The assessment of animal welfare on-farm is important to ensure that current welfare
standards are followed. The current manual assessment proposed by Welfare …

The behaviour of animals provides information on their health, welfare and environmental
situation. In different climatic conditions, pigs adopt different lying postures; at higher …

Simple Summary The preeminent purpose of precision livestock farming (PLF) is to provide
affordable and straightforward solutions to severe problems with certainty. Some data …

Animal posture is a manifestation of animal behavior, and an animal's behavior provides
information about their health, welfare, and living environment. In recent years, machine …

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 …

For both pigs in commercial farms and biological experimental pigs at breeding bases,
mounting behaviour is likely to cause damage such as epidermal wounds, lameness and …