Assessing the Activity of Individual Group-Housed Broilers Throughout Life using a Passive Radio Frequency Identification System-A Validation Study.

ABSTRACT: Individual data are valuable for assessing the health, welfare and performance of broilers. In particular, data on the first few days of life are needed to study the predictive value of traits recorded early in life for later life performance. However, broilers are generally kept in groups, which hampers individual identification and monitoring of animals. Sensor technologies may aid in identifying and monitoring individual animals. In this study, a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) system was implemented to record broiler activity, in combination with traditional video recordings. The two main objectives were 1) to validate the output of the RFID system by comparing it to the recorded locations on video, and 2) to assess whether the number of antennas visited per unit time cou

SUBMITTER: van der Sluis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7374484 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature