Moving towards Intelligence: Advances and Perspectives on Smart Poultry Farming

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to the Special Issue entitled “Moving towards Intelligence: Advances and Perspectives on Smart Poultry Farming”.

We are facing ever-growing demands for protein resources. To meet such demands, global poultry meat and egg production has soared in the past decades and is projected to keep growing in the decades to come. While poultry production makes critical contributions to food and nutrition security, it uses substantial natural and human resources and has significant impacts on society, the economy, public health, and the environment. Although the extent of these impacts may vary among continents and countries due to differences in production practices, climate conditions, and social structures and preferences, the global poultry industry, as a whole, should strive to keep improving its sustainability and efficiency in the resource usage. Smart Poultry Farming (SPF) features applications of intelligent and automated sensing technologies and computer tools for sustainable and efficient poultry production, and it offers solutions to the poultry industry to address challenges in terms of poultry management, the environment, nutrition, automation and robotics, health, welfare assessment, behaviour monitoring, waste management, etc.

This Special Issue aims to collect research and review papers addressing the sustainability and efficiency of poultry production and exploring the aforementioned areas through applications of SPF solutions in poultry meat and egg production. 

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Poultry environment;
• Poultry nutrition;
• Poultry welfare and behaviour;
• Poultry robotics;
• Poultry data management;
• Poultry genotype and phenotype;
• Sensing technologies for poultry application;
• The IoT;
• Artificial intelligence;
• Waste management;
• The social impact of smart poultry farming.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Yang Zhao
Dr. Lilong Chai
Dr. Guoming Li
Dr. Xiao Yang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• artificial intelligence
• poultry production
• animal welfare
• sustainability
• smart poultry farming
• precision poultry farming