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Analysis of Pig Tendencies to Stay Specific Sections Within the Pig Barn According to Environmental Parameters and Facilities Features

13/06/2025 - Pork accounts for 34% of global meat consumption, following poultry and beef. Intensive pig farming has expanded to meet increasing demand, but space constraints and poor environmental conditions can...

Detecting Lameness in Dairy Cows Based on Gait Feature Mapping and Attention Mechanisms

13/06/2025 - Lameness significantly compromises dairy cattle welfare and productivity. Early detection enables prompt intervention, enhancing both animal health and farm efficiency. Current computer vision...

Silage Maize Identification Using a Temporal Difference-Based Model with Sentinel-2 Data: Insights from a Harvest-Based and Temporally Transferable Approach

12/06/2025 - In response to the limited research on silage maize classification in China and the lack of data support for refined agricultural and livestock management, this study proposes a Temporal...

Characterization of Heat Tolerance in Two Apple Rootstocks Using Chlorophyll Fluorescence as a Screening Method

13/06/2025 - High temperature has an adverse effect on apple production worldwide. Photosynthesis is a process especially vulnerable to heat stress, which can reduce photosynthetic efficiency, plant growth,...

Fish Health Enhancement and Intestinal Microbiota Benefits of Asian Seabass (Lates calcarifer Bloch, 1790) on Dietary Sea Lettuce (Ulva rigida C. Agardh, 1823) Extract Supplementation

10/06/2025 - This study investigates the health benefits of supplementing Asian seabass diets with hot water crude extract from the sea lettuce Ulva rigida (Ur-HWCE). The extract's proximate composition consists...

Assessing the Impacts of Dairy Farm Antimicrobial Use on the Bovine Fecal Microbiome

12/06/2025 - Rising rates of antimicrobial-resistant infections have prompted increased scrutiny on antimicrobial use (AMU) in livestock agriculture. Dairy farms primarily use antimicrobials to maintain animal...

Impact of Thermal Manipulation of Broiler Eggs on Growth Performance, Splenic Inflammatory Cytokine Levels, and Heat Shock Protein Responses to Post-Hatch Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Challenge

12/06/2025 - Thermal manipulation (TM) during embryogenesis is a promising non-pharmacological strategy to enhance physiological resilience in broiler chickens. This study evaluated the impact of thermal...

Heat Stress from Calving to Mating: Mechanisms and Impact on Cattle Fertility

13/06/2025 - Animal production is a core sector to solve the increasing food demand worldwide, with productivity severely affected by climate change. Experts are predicting huge global productive losses in...

Evaluating Good Husbandry Practices and Organic Fermented Additives for Coccidiosis Control in a Pilot Study Using Slow-Growing Broilers

13/06/2025 - The Argentine Campero-INTA slow-growing chicken, a widely used breed in family poultry farming, faces high coccidiosis prevalence, impairing productivity. Control often relies on management and drugs...

Ritual Slaughter and Supranational Jurisprudence: A European Perspective

14/06/2025 - Ritual slaughter—understood as the killing of animals without prior stunning for religious purposes—constitutes a legally and ethically intricate domain, situated at the intersection of animal...

Effects of Different Rearing Methods on the Intestinal Morphology, Intestinal Metabolites, and Gut Microbiota of Lueyang Black-Bone Chickens

14/06/2025 - The Lueyang black-bone chicken represents a distinct indigenous avian breed native to China and it is a slow-growing broiler breed. The gut, whose primary function is to digest food and absorb...

Livestock Farm Recovery Following Bushfire in South-Eastern Australia: Impacts on Cattle and Sheep Health and Management

14/06/2025 - Severe bushfires in South-Eastern Australia during the summer of 2019/2020 killed tens of thousands of livestock, while many more survived on fire-affected properties. At the time, the literature on...

Detection of Genetic Variants Associated with Behavioural Response During Milking in Simmental Dual-Purpose Cows

15/06/2025 - Cattle breeding has traditionally focused on improving production traits; however, recent interest in positive animal welfare has shifted attention toward selecting for more robust animals that...

Assessing the Impact of Spraying an E. faecium Probiotic at Hatch and Supplementing Feed with a Triple-Strain Bacillus-Based Additive on BCO Lameness Incidence in Broiler Chickens

15/06/2025 - Bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO) is a major cause of lameness in broiler chickens. This condition arises when bacteria from the gastrointestinal or aerosol tract migrate to infect...

Protective Effects of Fish Oil Against Brain Impairment in Rats with Chronic Ethanol-Induced Liver Damage Involving the NRF2 Pathway and Oxidative Stress

10/06/2025 - Fish oil's neuroprotective effects in ethanol-induced liver injury was investigated through the factor 2 (NRF2)/Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (KEAP1) pathway. Male Wistar rats received a...

Redox Imbalance Is Associated with Neuronal Apoptosis in the Cortex of Neonates Gestated Under Chronic Hypoxia

15/06/2025 - Gestational chronic hypoxia impacts prenatal development, leading to fetal growth restriction (FGR), defined as the fetus's failure to reach its genetic growth potential. Postnatal hypoxia in the...

Lactobacillus fermentum ZC529 Protects Intestinal Epithelial Barrier Integrity by Activating the Keap1-Nrf2 Signaling Pathway and Inhibiting the NF-&kappa;B Signaling Pathway

14/06/2025 - The probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus fermentum ZC529 (L.f ZC529) has been identified from the colon of the Diannan small-ear (DSE) pig, but its intestinal protective function still lacks...

Tracking Poultry Drinking Behavior and Floor Eggs in Cage-Free Houses with Innovative Depth Anything Model

12/06/2025 - In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly impacted agricultural operations, particularly with the development of deep learning models for animal monitoring and farming...

An Optimal Sizing Methodology for a Wind/PV Hybrid Energy Production System for Agricultural Irrigation in Skikda, Algeria

14/06/2025 - This paper presents an innovative solution to address agricultural irrigation needs through a hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) that was specifically designed for a farm located in the Skikda...

Deep Learning?Guided Urban Climate Risk Mitigation Through Optimal Spatial Allocation of Green and Cool Roofs

13/06/2025 - AbstractWith cities facing increasing challenges due to climate change, we developed a deep learning?based surrogate modeling framework to optimize urban roofing strategies for climate risk...

Shared temporal increases in bill size among songbirds of the San Francisco Bay Area provide evidence for different seasonal selective pressures

- Museum specimens offer a unique and powerful tool for understanding the impact of anthropogenic change on populations over time. Morphological traits can be impacted by many different environmental...

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