LEB5044 - Animal Production I: Principles and Concepts

Credit hours

Instructor
Késia Oliveira da Silva Miranda

Objective
Provide the concepts and knowledge of basic physical principles to be used as tools in precision animal
production in order to develop a sense about their importance. This will make it possible for students to
apply these concepts within the general area of precision animal production, such as: process safety, the
quality of the final animal products, and combining these aspects in accordance with current legislation.

Content
Introduction: History, concepts and accuracy of Precision Animal Production
Current challenges of animal production systems
Concepts, applications and advanced control system (e.g., telemetry) sensors, actuators and biosensors
Definitions and concepts of the basic physical laws of various tools used in Precision Animal Production
Intelligent systems of environmental control and animal behavior
Assessment tools (fuzzy logic, neural networks, CFD modeling)
Use of Precision Animal Production in animal behavior assessment (visual, thermal, sound)
Thermography
Image analyses
Sound analyses (signal analysis, bioacoustics, vocalization) and animal behavior;
Music therapy
Seminars

Bibliography
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Articles:
Fialho, B.F. 1999. Modernização no Controle da Produção de Suínos – Zootecnia de Precisão. In Anais do Simpósio de Ambiciência e Qualidade na Produção Industrial de Suínos. Piracicaba, 61-80p.
Filmer, D. Nutritional management of meat poultry. 2001. Wathes, C.M., Frost, A.R., Gordon, F, Wood, J.D. Edinburgh, British Society of Animal Science. Occasional Publication Number 28, pp. 133–146.
Frost, A.R., Schofield, C.P., Beaulah, S.A., Mottram, T.T., Lines, J.A., Wathes, C.M., 1997. A review of livestock monitoring and the need for integrated systems. Comput. Electron. Agric. 17, 139–159.
Frost, A.R., 2001. In: Wathes, C.M., Frost, A.R., Gordon, F., Wood, J.D. (Eds.), An Overview of Integrated Management Systems for Sustainable Livestock Production. Occasional Publication Number 28. British Society of Animal Science, Edinburgh, pp.45–50.
Frost, A.R., Parsons, D.J., Stacey, K.F., Robertson, A.P., Welch, S.K., Filmer, D., Fothergill, A., 2003. Progress towards the development of an integrated management system for broiler chicken production. Comput. Electron. Agric. 39, 227–240.
Hamilton, D.N., Ellis, M., Bertol, T.M., Miller, K.D., 2004. Effects of handling intensity and live weight on blood acid-base status in finishing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 82, 2405–2409.
Kohler, S.D., Kaufmann, O., 2003. Quarter-related measurements of milking and milk parameters in an AMS-herd. Milk Sci. Int. 58, 3–6.
Lowe, J., Abeyesinghe, S.M., Demmers, T.G.M., Wathes, C.M., McKeegan, D.E.F., 2007. A novel telemetric logging system for recording physiological signals in unrestrained animals. Comput. Electron. Agric. 57, 74–79.
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Nääs, I.A. Agricultura de Precisão: Zootecnia de Precisão. In: Aluízio Borém; Marcos P. Del Guidice; Daniel Marçal de Queiroz; Evandro Chartuni Mantovani; Lino Roberto Ferreira. (Org.). Agricultura de Precisão. Viçosa:Editora da Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2000, v. 1, p. 43-63.
Parsons, D.J., Schofield, C.P., Green, D.M., Whittemore, C.T., Carroll, S., Kay, R., 2004. Real-time control of pig growth through an integrated management system. In: Proceedings of the Agricultural Engineering Conference, Leuven Belgium, September. Resolution of the Conference of the Parties – Eight Meeting of Conference of the Parties, Kyoto – Japan, 1992.
Schofield, C.P., 1990. Evaluation of image analysis as a means of estimating the weight of pigs. J. Agric. Eng. Res. 47, 287–296.
Scott, G.B., Moran, P., 1993. Fear levels in laying hens carried by hand and by mechanical conveyors. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 36, 337–345.
Spahr, S.L. e Surber, R.S. 1992. Practical Experiences with Automated Electronic Animal Identification using Injected Identification Transponders. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Prospects for Automatic Milking, pp. 546-551, Wageningen, Holanda.
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Van Hirtum, A., Berckmans, D., 2004. Objective recognition of cough sound as a biomarker for aerial pollutants. Indoor Air 14, 10–15.
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Wade, J.R. e Mayhal, J.A. 1994. Straight Talk About Microship Identification. Inovação e Tecnologia na Formação Agrícola | Zootecnia de Precisão 21 Publicação exclusiva da AVID Identification Systems Inc.
Wathes, C.M., Frost, A.R., Gordon, F., Wood, J., 2001. Integrated Management Systems for Livestock. Occasional Publication Number 28. British Society of Animal Science, Edinburgh.
Livestock Handling and Transport, CAB INTERNATIONAL, New York.
Periódicos nacionais e internacionais de consulta livre:
Transactions of the ASABE; Behavior Animal Production; Poultry Science; Animal Science; Canadian Agricultural Engineering; dentre outros.