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  • Tracking Poultry Locomotion with AI Technology

    Lilong Chai

    March 24, 2024

    Poultry locomotion is an important indicator of animal health, welfare, and productivity. Traditional methodologies such as manual observation or the use of wearable devices, encounter significant challenges, including potential stress induction and behavioral alteration in animals. For instance, locomotion speed can be used to predict poultry gait score (an indicator of animal walking status) or…

    Posted in: Poultry, Precision animal production
  • 2024 Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference

    Lilong Chai

    March 11, 2024

    UGA poultry science department and Extension team will host the 2024 Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference virtually on May 1. The event is free for student participants. The conference will be recorded for sharing with registered participants. Registration link:  https://t.uga.edu/7S8 This year’s conference will be the fourth annual Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference. Our past three conferences…

    Posted in: Poultry, Precision animal production
  • Electrostatic particle ionization technology for air quality management in poultry houses

    Lilong Chai

    February 19, 2024

    In the USA, cage-free (CF) housing systems have gained popularity as an ethical and humane poultry farming method. However, the concentration of air pollutants inside CF housing, particularly regarding dust or particulate matter (PM), poses a major concern on animals and their caretakers. These air pollutants can threaten bird health and worker safety. Various studies…

    Posted in: Poultry, Precision animal production
  • Automatic Methods for Monitoring Broiler Chickens’ Body Weight

    Lilong Chai

    January 13, 2024

    Broiler body weight monitoring is critical for evaluating the growth and performance of a flock. The obtained bodyweight and uniformity of the flock are indicators of daily growth rate, feed-to-meat conversion ratio, health conditions, and marketing day prediction. The traditional protocol is to manually sample and weigh a certain ratio of a flock one by…

    Posted in: Poultry, poultry monitoring, Precision animal production
  • Detecting Broiler Chickens with an Innovated Deep Learning Model

    Lilong Chai

    November 19, 2023

    Introduction For commercial broiler production, about 20,000 – 30,000 birds are raised in each confined house, which has caused growing public concerns on animal welfare. Currently, daily evaluation of broiler wellbeing and growth is conducted manually, which is labor intensive and subjective to human errors. Therefore, there is a need for an automatic tool to…

    Posted in: Poultry, poultry monitoring, Precision animal production
  • Cage-Free Hens’ Mislaying Behavior Detection with Deep Learning

    Lilong Chai

    May 6, 2023

    Introduction The laying hen industry is shifting from conventional caged to cage-free (CF) housing due to various welfare concerns and public demand to improve poultry behavior and welfare. The CF housing can improve welfare by providing more space and chances to perform natural behaviors, but there are some serious downsides to bird welfare and problematic…

    Posted in: Precision animal production
  • Monitoring Spatial Distribution of Laying Hens with Deep Learning

    Lilong Chai

    April 12, 2023

    Introduction The spatial distribution of laying hens in cage-free houses is an indicator of flock’s health and welfare. While larger space allows chickens to perform more natural behaviors such as dustbathing, foraging, and perching in cage-free houses, an inherent challenge is evaluating chickens’ spatial distribution (e.g., real-time birds’ number on perches or in nesting boxes).…

    Posted in: poultry monitoring, Precision animal production
  • Tracking Floor Eggs in Cage-free Houses with Machine Vision Technologies

    Lilong Chai

    March 26, 2023

    Introduction While CF house allows hens to perform more natural behaviors (e.g., dust bathing, perching and foraging on the litter floor), a particular challenge is floor eggs (i.e., mislaid eggs on litter floor). Floor eggs have high chances of contamination. The manual collection of eggs is laborious and time-consuming. Delayed floor egg collection may lead…

    Posted in: poultry monitoring, Precision animal production
  • Dust Generations, Impacts, and Control Strategies in Poultry Houses

    Lilong Chai

    March 10, 2023

    Introduction Animal feeding operations are important sources of air pollutant emissions into the environment. The primary air emissions include particulate matter (PM) and other gases like greenhouse gases and ammonia (NH3), as these gases pose a high potential risk to air quality, public and animal health, and climate change. Among these air pollutants, PM is…

    Posted in: Climate Smart Poultry Production
  • Controlling Ammonia Generations in Poultry Houses

    Lilong Chai

    February 21, 2023

    Ammonia Issues in Poultry Houses Confined animal feeding operations are the main sources of air pollutants such as ammonia (NH3) and greenhouse gases. Among air pollutants, NH3 is one of the most concerned gasses in terms of air quality, environmental impacts, and manure nutrient losses. It is recommended that NH3 concentrations in the poultry house…

    Posted in: Climate Smart Poultry Production, poultry monitoring, Precision animal production
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