TY - CONF
T1 - Video Recording System to Assess Animal Welfare Impact of Environmental Changes in Barns
AU - Hofstetter, Dan
AU - Boney, John
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Grant number 2015-68004-23131 and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Federal Appropriations under Project PEN04614 and Accession number 1011207.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Animal welfare may be enhanced if research tools are developed to continuously monitor animal behavior on farm. Turkeys are curious, and their behavior changes when humans are present, making it difficult to assess behavioral changes from environmental adjustments such as lighting or ventilation. Additionally, many poultry producers have off-farm jobs. A video monitoring system may be used to aid in poultry management from remote locations. This paper describes a highly flexible custom solution to monitor birds using internet-connected cameras and a Windows 10 virtual machine running Agent DVR recording software with OneDrive for cloud storage of video footage. The video recording system was used to record activity of turkeys living in sixteen different pens continuously for six weeks for an animal welfare study assessing differences in behavior for birds raised with night lights compared to birds raised in complete darkness at night. Discussion will include lessons learned from setup and operation of the recording hardware, software, and cloud storage platform, as well as observations from footage recorded during the animal welfare study.
AB - Animal welfare may be enhanced if research tools are developed to continuously monitor animal behavior on farm. Turkeys are curious, and their behavior changes when humans are present, making it difficult to assess behavioral changes from environmental adjustments such as lighting or ventilation. Additionally, many poultry producers have off-farm jobs. A video monitoring system may be used to aid in poultry management from remote locations. This paper describes a highly flexible custom solution to monitor birds using internet-connected cameras and a Windows 10 virtual machine running Agent DVR recording software with OneDrive for cloud storage of video footage. The video recording system was used to record activity of turkeys living in sixteen different pens continuously for six weeks for an animal welfare study assessing differences in behavior for birds raised with night lights compared to birds raised in complete darkness at night. Discussion will include lessons learned from setup and operation of the recording hardware, software, and cloud storage platform, as well as observations from footage recorded during the animal welfare study.
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U2 - 10.13031/aim.202200342
DO - 10.13031/aim.202200342
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85137561978
T2 - 2022 ASABE Annual International Meeting
Y2 - 17 July 2022 through 20 July 2022
ER -