Simple Summary The increasing implementation of technological advances originally
developed for video gaming (PlayStation, Xbox) is helping to progress livestock production …

Several precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies, conceived for optimizing farming
processes, are developed to detect the physical and behavioral changes of animals …

Welfare assessment has traditionally been performed by direct observation by humans,
providing information at only selected points in time. Recently, this assessment method has …

Livestock production to provide food for a growing world population, with increasing demand
for meat and milk products, has led to a rapid growth in the scale of cattle and pig …

Simple Summary Current acute pain assessment protocols in domestic animals require the
use of a suite of methods to evaluate the multidimensional components of pain. Thermal …

There is a moral obligation to minimize pain in pigs used for human benefit. In livestock
production, pigs experience pain caused by management procedures, eg, castration and tail …

Posture and the rate of postural changes of farrowing and lactating sows are considered
reliable indicators of environmental comfort and health status and are risk factors for piglet …

Claw lesions and lameness are very common disorders in sows. Both conditions have a
negative impact on the welfare and production results of breeding sows, causing important …

Posture patterns of sows or gilts could reflect their welfare, estrus, and health status.
However, due to the large animal-to-staff ratio at sow farms, there is not yet a solution to …

Precision Swine Farming has the potential to directly benefit swine health and industry profit
by automatically monitoring the growth and health of pigs. We introduce the first system to …