ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Assessing the Activity of Individual Group-Housed Broilers Throughout Life using a Passive Radio Frequency Identification System-A Validation Study.
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- Setting the stage to tag "n" track: a guideline for implementing, validating and reporting a radio frequency identification system for monitoring resource visit behavior in poultry.Poultry science · 2023Guideline
- RAMSMART: a low-invasive system for real-time automated multi-species monitoring of livestock activity in research trials.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- A Novel Lightweight Framework for Non-Contact Broiler Face Identification in Intensive Farming.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Monitoring Welfare of Individual Broiler Chickens Using Ultra-Wideband and Inertial Measurement Unit Wearables.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Evaluating broiler welfare and behavior as affected by growth rate and stocking density.Poultry science · 2024Article
- Exploratory Study on Individual Locomotor Activity in Local Dual-Purpose and Commercial Breeder Pullets.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Group level and individual activity of broiler chickens hatched in 3 different systems.Poultry science · 2023Article
- Passive radio frequency identification and video tracking for the determination of location and movement of broilers.Poultry science · 2023Article
- Welfare of broilers on farm.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2023Article
- Automated Tracking Systems for the Assessment of Farmed Poultry.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
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Abstract
Individual data are valuable for assessing the health, welfare and performance of broilers. In particular, data on the first few days of life are needed to study the predictive value of traits recorded early in life for later life performance. However, broilers are generally kept in groups, which hampers individual identification and monitoring of animals. Sensor technologies may aid in identifying and monitoring individual animals. In this study, a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) system was implemented to record broiler activity, in combination with traditional video recordings. The two main objectives were 1) to validate the output of the RFID system by comparing it to the recorded locations on video, and 2) to assess whether the number of antennas visited per unit time could serve as a measure of activity, by comparing it to the distance recorded on video and to the distance moved as recorded using a validated ultra-wideband (UWB) tracking system. The locations recorded by the RFID system exactly matched the video in 62.5% of the cases, and in 99.2% of the cases when allowing for a deviation of one antenna grid cell. There were moderately strong Spearman rank correlations between the distance recorded with the RFID system and the distance recorded from video (
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