May the Extensive Farming System of Small Ruminants Be Smart? DOI Creative Commons
Rosanna Paolino, Adriana Di Trana, Adele Coppola

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Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(9), P. 929 - 929

Published: April 24, 2025

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) applies a complex of sensor technology, algorithms, and multiple tools for individual, real-time livestock monitoring. In intensive systems, PLF is now quite widespread, allowing the optimisation management, thanks to early recognition diseases possibility monitoring animals’ feeding reproductive behaviour, with an overall improvement their welfare. Similarly, systems represent opportunity improve profitability sustainability extensive farming including those small ruminants, rationalising use pastures by avoiding overgrazing controlling animals. Despite distribution in several parts world, low profit relatively high cost devices cause delays implementing ruminants compared dairy cows. Applying these animals requires customisation systems. many cases, unit prices sensors are higher than developed large due miniaturisation production costs associated lower numbers. Sheep goat farms often mountainous remote areas poor technological infrastructure ineffective electricity, telephone, internet services. Moreover, ruminant usually advanced age farmers, contributing local initiatives implementation. A targeted literature analysis was carried out identify technologies already applied or at stage development management grazing animals, particularly sheep goats, effects on nutrition, production, animal The current developments include wearable, non-wearable, network technologies. review involved main fields application can help most suitable managing goats contribute selecting more sustainable efficient solutions line environmental welfare concerns.

Language: Английский

Smart Pig Farms: Integration and Application of Digital Technologies in Pig Production DOI Creative Commons

Kenan Maric,

Kristina Gvozdanović, Ivona Djurkin Kušec

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Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(9), P. 937 - 937

Published: April 25, 2025

The prediction that the world population will reach almost 10 billion people by 2050 means an increase in pork production is required. Efforts to meet increased demand have made pig one of most technologically advanced branches and which growing continuously. Precision Livestock Production (PLF) increasingly widespread model farming describes a management system based on continuous automatic monitoring control production, reproduction, animal health welfare real time, as well impact husbandry environment. Today, wide range technologies available, such 2D 3D cameras assess body weight, behavior activity, thermal imaging monitor temperatures determine estrus, microphones vocalizations, various measuring cells food intake, weight gain, many others. By combining applying available technologies, it possible obtain variety data allow livestock farmers automatically animals improve environmental sustainability. Nevertheless, PLF systems need further research create cheap affordable but accurate models ensure progress production.

Language: Английский

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Environmental Gradients and Hen Spatial Distribution in a Cage-Free Aviary System: Internet of Things-Based Real-Time Monitoring for Proactive Management DOI Creative Commons
Francesco Bordignon, Mattia Pravato, A. Trocino

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Animals, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(9), P. 1225 - 1225

Published: April 26, 2025

This study assessed environmental gradients at different heights in a multi-tiered aviary and their relationship with hen spatial distribution. Two pens of an experimental housing 225 Novogen hens (Novogen S.A.S., Plédran, France) each were monitored when 32-52 weeks old over three periods (January, March, June). The conditions (humidity, sound intensity, NH3, CO2, particulate matter; PM: PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10) continuously recorded every 10 min, 24 h per day, (floor middle upper tiers) using IoT-based system. Hen distribution was analysed video recordings from 04:00 to 20:00, scanning 15 min for 30 video. On the whole, air quality always consistent recommended values laying hens. tier, where nests located, exhibited higher humidity CO2 PM concentration compared tier floor, suggesting reduced airflow. result can be related length barn containing only one row equipment, which likely affected circulation what happens commercial barns several rows 50 m. varied during presence on floor being highest midday (58% hens) correlated increased matter (r = 0.57-0.60; p < 0.001) NH3 concentrations 0.33; 0.001). Hens occupied more June (34% vs. 24% January; 0.001), correlating lower levels. Understanding daily seasonal changes tiers could help optimise ventilation schemes control ensure welfare, health, production throughout cycle.

Language: Английский

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May the Extensive Farming System of Small Ruminants Be Smart? DOI Creative Commons
Rosanna Paolino, Adriana Di Trana, Adele Coppola

et al.

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(9), P. 929 - 929

Published: April 24, 2025

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) applies a complex of sensor technology, algorithms, and multiple tools for individual, real-time livestock monitoring. In intensive systems, PLF is now quite widespread, allowing the optimisation management, thanks to early recognition diseases possibility monitoring animals’ feeding reproductive behaviour, with an overall improvement their welfare. Similarly, systems represent opportunity improve profitability sustainability extensive farming including those small ruminants, rationalising use pastures by avoiding overgrazing controlling animals. Despite distribution in several parts world, low profit relatively high cost devices cause delays implementing ruminants compared dairy cows. Applying these animals requires customisation systems. many cases, unit prices sensors are higher than developed large due miniaturisation production costs associated lower numbers. Sheep goat farms often mountainous remote areas poor technological infrastructure ineffective electricity, telephone, internet services. Moreover, ruminant usually advanced age farmers, contributing local initiatives implementation. A targeted literature analysis was carried out identify technologies already applied or at stage development management grazing animals, particularly sheep goats, effects on nutrition, production, animal The current developments include wearable, non-wearable, network technologies. review involved main fields application can help most suitable managing goats contribute selecting more sustainable efficient solutions line environmental welfare concerns.

Language: Английский

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