Precision Livestock Innovations in Swine Production and Welfare
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal System and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2022) | Viewed by 339
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal health; animal welfare; muscle biology; stress physiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The interest of this special issue is centered around the use of precision livestock technology (PLT) as means to improve the health and welfare of livestock. Specifically, the interest is focused on the development of real-time PLT that can continuously monitor the behavior of individual animals within a group of housed pigs to identify subclinical symptoms of morbidity and injury in livestock. The development of practical real-time PLT with these capabilities can serve as a fundamental tool for increasing producers’ ability to identify compromised animals quickly and accurately, thus allowing for rapid and effective intervention.
Dr. Ty B. Schmidt
Dr. Benny Mote
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animal health
- animal welfare
- behavior
- morbidity
- real-time monitoring
- individual tracking
