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Collaborative project: An automatic multi parameter expert system designed to improve animal welfare and productivity for sows and piglets in the farrowing crate - subproject 2
Project
Project code: 2813702210
Contract period: 01.02.2011
- 31.01.2014
Budget: 124,738 Euro
Purpose of research: Experimental development
The aim of the project MultiExpert was the improvement of animal welfare and productivity in farrowing pens. Therefore different sensors for the recording of animal individual physiological parameters were tested and brought together in a practice test. These sensors served as the database for an expert system for the health monitoring of sows and her piglets. Background of this work is the steady increase of the litter sizes in the piggery which entails a just as steadily growing piglet mortality. Underweight piglets, increasingly appearing in connection with larger litter sizes, are particularly susceptible to piglet crushing and to an illness-related reduction of the lactation performance of the mother sow. The cooperation between the Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Engineering, the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology and Big Dutchman Pig Equipment tested different sensors and procedures that have the potential to reduce piglet mortality and to improve the sows’ health.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal Husbandry
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Funding institution
Project management agencies
Associated projects: MultiExpert
- Collaborative project: An automatic multi parameter expert system designed to improve animal welfare and productivity for sows and piglets in the farrowing crate - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: An automatic multi parameter expert system designed to improve animal welfare and productivity for sows and piglets in the farrowing crate (MultiExpert) - subproject 3
