A5056545036- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Music and Audio Processing
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
KU Leuven
2017-2021
Heat stress is one of the most important environmental stressors facing poultry production and welfare worldwide. The detrimental effects heat on range from reduced growth egg to impaired health. Animal vocalisations are associated with different animal responses can be used as useful indicators state welfare. It already known that specific chicken such alarm, squawk, gakel calls correlated stressful events, therefore, could in monitoring systems. In this study, we focused developing a hen...
The pattern of body weight gain during the commercial growing broiler chickens is important to understand growth and feed conversion ratio each flock.The application sound analysis techniques has been widely studied measure analyze amplitude frequency animal sounds. Previous studies have shown a significant correlation (P ≤ 0.001) between vocalization age broilers. Therefore, aim this study was identify validate model that describes rate based on peak their vocalizations explore possibility...
Pigs reared in intensive farming systems are more likely to develop damaging behaviours such as tail and ear biting (EB) due their difficulty coping with the environment inability perform natural behaviours. However, much less is known about aetiology of EB behaviour compared behaviour. Application new intervention strategies may be key deal this welfare issue. The discipline Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) allows farmers improve management practices use advanced technologies. Exploring...