Precision livestock farming – challenges and opportunities for animal welfare Passed
Friday October 29, 2021 13:00 - 13:30
Lecturer: Emma Baxter
Symposium: Husdjur - gris
Precision Livestock Farming technologies are now widely available across all livestock sectors and are intended to improve performance, efficiency and/or health. Within animal welfare PLF has the potential to both identify welfare issues and measure outcomes of welfare interventions. Although technological advances offer these opportunities, they can also present risks to animal health and welfare and raise ethical issues.
Lecturers
Emma Baxter Lecturer
Dr
SRUC
Emma is a senior research scientist at SRUC with over 18 years of research experience in animal behaviour and welfare. She specialises in pigs with projects covering challenges throughout the pig’s life cycle from optimising piglet survival and designing high welfare farrowing systems to investigating alternatives to CO2 stunning at slaughterhouses. Of particular relevance for this meeting is her work on precision livestock farming with projects looking at automated detection of imminent tail-biting outbreaks and individual recognition and detection of affective states using facial biometrics and facial expression.