Review of Sensor Technologies in Animal Breeding: Phenotyping Behaviors of Laying Hens to Select Against Feather Pecking

Review of Sensor Technologies in Animal Breeding: Phenotyping Behaviors of Laying Hens to Select Against Feather Pecking

Damaging behaviors, like feather pecking (FP), have large economic and welfare consequences in the commercial laying hen industry. Selective breeding can be used to obtain animals that are less likely to perform damaging behavior on their pen-mates. However, with the growing tendency to keep birds i...

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Main Authors: Esther D. Ellen, Malou van der Sluis, Janice Siegford, Oleksiy Guzhva, Michael J. Toscano, Jörn Bennewitz, Lisette E. van der Zande, Jerine A. J. van der Eijk, Elske N. de Haas, Tomas Norton, Deborah Piette, Jens Tetens, Britt de Klerk, Bram Visser, T. Bas Rodenburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Series:Animals
Subjects:
damaging behavior
ultra-wideband
radio frequency identification
computer vision
identification
measuring behavior
-omics
genetic selection
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/3/108

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