Journal article
Early warning of footpad dermatitis and hockburn in broiler chicken flocks using optical flow, body weight and water consumption
- Abstract:
- Footpad dermatitis and hockburn are serious welfare and economic issues for the production of broiler (meat) chickens. We here describe the use of an inexpensive camera system that monitors the movements of broiler flocks throughout their lives and suggests that is possible to predict, even in young birds, the cross-sectional prevalence at slaughter of footpad dermatitis and hockburn before external signs are visible. The skew and kurtosis calculated from our camera-based optical flow system had considerably more power to predict these outcomes in the 50 flocks reported here than water consumption, body weight or mortality and therefore have the potential to inform improved flock management through giving farmers early warning of welfare issues. Further trials are underway to establish the generality of the results
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/vr.104066
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- BMJ Publishing Group
- Journal:
- Veterinary Record More from this journal
- Volume:
- 180
- Issue:
- 20
- Pages:
- 1-6
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-03
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2042-7670
- ISSN:
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0042-4900
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pubs:676053
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- British Veterinary Association
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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