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Larger livestock farms increase the risk of disease and nutrient leakage – and raise issues of animal welfare and ethics, says Stefan Gunnarsson, Senior Lecturer in Collaboration in Animal Production.
Knowledge bank: Animals
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Introduction to automatic forage stations and measurement of forage intake rate in an active stable for horses
Interest in the use of open barns on Swedish horse farms is increasing as an alternative to keeping horses in box stalls. What is the best way to introduce new horses to the facility's automated feeding system? -
Faecal bacterial composition in horses with and without free faecal liquid
Free faecal liquid (FFL) is a condition in horses which manifests as differential defecation of solid and liquid phases of faeces. The etiology of FFL is currently unknown, but deviances in the hindgut microbiota has been suggested to be of importance.
Research: Animals
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OinkScope – A Computer Vision-based Spatial Intelligence tool for Monitoring Behaviour of Group-Housed Pigs
Video recording of ethological experiments creates a large bulk of footage to be manually annotated in order to extract the data.