Details of the project EPI

ThermoEye - an innovative system for protecting the welfare of pigs

02-12-2019 do 01-11-2021

1 707 684,00

EFRROW; national public funds

www.zdrowezwierzetaepi.pl

The ThermoEye is an innovative system for improving the welfare of pigs. The main aim of project is to develop and implement a non-invasive temperature monitoring system for farm animals (pigs) as one of the elements of the strategy for reducing the use of antibiotics in pig production and raising production indicators. The research indicates that the welfare principles should be kept whilest reducing the use of antibiotics. At the same time, th infectious diseases cause significant losses in the pig production. An accurate real-time data acquisition of the animals\' body temperature and data about animals\' movement allows early detection of the disease and facilitates further management of the herd. To achieve this goal, it is necessary for veterinarians and breeders to use modern digital technologies designed primarily to monitor potential threats affecting animal productivity and health. Changes in the animal behavior preceding or accompanying subclinical and clinical sig

We claim that the ThermoEye will help breeders in optimization and automation of management processes in the herd, significantly improving the welfare of farm animals. The use of the ThermoEye system in the pig production will improve the breeding economy and reduce use of antibiotics in the production cycle. The most important results will be: - reducing the use of antibiotics on farms; - assessment and possible stimulation of the natural animal immune system; - easier and stress-free therapy efficiency control with ongoing body surface temperature measurements; - automatic selection of individuals with low levels of well-being manifested in increased body temperature (\"Pig Stress Syndrome\") - selection of individuals with a low level of well-being manifested in a reduced body surface temperature (anomaly detection); - possibilities to detect correlation between ethogram-compatible reactions and behavioral disorders that occur with increasing or decreasing the surface warm skin; - improved estrus detection by continious measurment of sows body surface temperature; - faster and more accurate detection of postpartum diseases in sows with fever (mastitis, endometritis); - possibility of combining animals showing an atypical course of the sex cycle and their compounds as well as more effective hormonal support; - optimization and control of fattening based on temperature data recorded by the ThermoEye system at the time of starting to eat, during and after eating; - production and economic conditions improvment (more efficient use of feed); - providing meat without antibiotics relicts for end customers; - pork quality improvement and animals stress reduction during fattening; - development of organic farming.

animal husbandry and welfare