Stakeholders’ perceptions of precision livestock farming to improve small ruminant welfare

Evangelia Sossidou; Eliel Gonzalez-Garcia; Maria A Karatzia; Ludovic Czizster; Ali Elhadi; Leticia Riaguas; Gerardo Caja; AP Barnes; Jean-Marc Gautier; Tim Keady; Ilan Halachmi; Giovanni Molle; Lise Grova; C Morgan-Davies

doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-937-4

Stakeholders’ perceptions of precision livestock farming to improve small ruminant welfare

Evangelia Sossidou^*, Eliel Gonzalez-Garcia, Maria A Karatzia, Ludovic Czizster, Ali Elhadi, Leticia Riaguas, Gerardo Caja, AP Barnes, Jean-Marc Gautier, Tim Keady, Ilan Halachmi, Giovanni Molle, Lise Grova, C Morgan-Davies

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Within the TechCare Project, a list of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) tools, with potential for monitoring animal welfare in small ruminant production, was formulated in TechCare Countries. The opinions of stakeholders were taken into account after consultations, following a multi-actor approach. The OPERA method was used to reach consensus between stakeholders. Overall, stakeholders’ opinions appear rather uniform. Regarding meat sheep, the
highest appreciated PLF tool was the automated weighing and low frequency identification (LF) system, followed by localisation (GPS) and 3-axial accelerometers, as well as new ultra-high-frequency (UHF) eartags and readers for several uses (e.g. water intake). The most suitable PLF tools selected for dairy sheep were environmental-air quality sensors (e.g. weather stations), followed by automated milk recording, LF and automatic weighing. As for dairy goats,
in addition to those selected for dairy sheep, the new UHF eartags and readers were prioritized. Regardless of the production system, the most important traits of selected PLF tools were low cost and ease-of-use. Most stakeholders also expressed concerns on their ability to collect and handle the data generated from PLF tools for monitoring individual animals. TechCare (www.techcare-project.eu) receives funding from the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme grant no. 862050.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Book of Abstracts of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science
Place of Publication	Wageningen
Publisher	Wageningen Academic Publishers
Pages	462
Number of pages	1
Volume	28
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-8686-937-4
ISBN (Print)	978-90-8686-385-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-937-4
Publication status	Print publication - 1 Sept 2022
Event	73rd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science - Porto, Portugal Duration: 5 Sept 2022 → 8 Sept 2022

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Conference	73rd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Porto
Period	5/09/22 → 8/09/22

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TechCare_Integrating innovative TECHnologies along the value Chain to improve small ruminant welfARE management
Morgan-Davies, C. (PI), Bray, A. (CoI), Ramsay, N. (CoI) & Dwyer, C. (CoI)
European Commission
1/09/20 → 31/08/25
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Sossidou, E., Gonzalez-Garcia, E., Karatzia, M. A., Czizster, L., Elhadi, A., Riaguas, L., Caja, G., Barnes, AP., Gautier, J.-M., Keady, T., Halachmi, I., Molle, G., Grova, L., & Morgan-Davies, C. (2022). Stakeholders’ perceptions of precision livestock farming to improve small ruminant welfare. In Book of Abstracts of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Vol. 28, pp. 462). Wageningen Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-937-4

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Stakeholders’ perceptions of precision livestock farming to improve small ruminant welfare. / Sossidou, Evangelia; Gonzalez-Garcia, Eliel; Karatzia, Maria A et al.
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