TechCare: Technologies to manage the welfare of sheep and goats – from pilots to large-scale studies

C Morgan-Davies; Germain Tesniere; CM Dwyer; Grete H.M. Jorgensen; Eliel Gonzalez-Garcia; Jean-Marc Gautier; Lise Grova; Mauro Decandia; Fiona Kenyon; Gerardo Caja; Ilan Halachmi; Assaf Godo; Evangelia Sossidou; Sotiris Patsios; Ludovic Czizster; Tim WJ Keady; Brid McClearn; Gilles Lagriffoul; Noemie Litalien; Leticia Riaguas

TechCare: Technologies to manage the welfare of sheep and goats – from pilots to large-scale studies

C Morgan-Davies, Germain Tesniere, CM Dwyer, Grete H.M. Jorgensen, Eliel Gonzalez-Garcia, Jean-Marc Gautier, Lise Grova, Mauro Decandia, Fiona Kenyon, Gerardo Caja, Ilan Halachmi, Assaf Godo, Evangelia Sossidou, Sotiris Patsios, Ludovic Czizster, Tim WJ Keady, Brid McClearn, Gilles Lagriffoul, Noemie Litalien, Leticia Riaguas

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Abstract

An animal communicates its welfare state through changes in behaviour and physiology. TechCare explores potential technologies to manage the welfare of sheep and goats along the value chain. After stakeholders prioritised
welfare issues in the nine project countries, technologies were identified, selected and tested in sheep and goat pilot farms in various environments. Thirteen technologies were evaluated in 5 countries (France, Israel, Italy, Norway, UK). Welfare assessments were also carried out. Five technologies were subsequently retained for further evaluation on commercial farms in 5 countries: indoor/outdoor weather stations and EID tags/readers (France,
Greece, Ireland, Romania, Spain); automatic weight crates (Ireland, Spain); milk tank weighers and milk meters (France, Greece, Romania, Spain). Between 10 and 15 farms in each large scale country have been recruited, and welfare assessments are being undertaken, alongside data recorded by the technologies. This will guide the selection of optimal technologies for managing welfare on small ruminant farms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Book of Abstracts of the 75th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science
Pages	522
Number of pages	1
Volume	34
Publication status	Print publication - 10 Sept 2024
Event	75th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science : Florence, 1-5 September 2024 - Florence, Florence, Italy Duration: 1 Sept 2024 → 5 Sept 2024 Conference number: 75

Conference

Conference	75th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science
Abbreviated title	EAAP
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	1/09/24 → 5/09/24

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RESAS 22-27: SRUC-b2-4 Data Driven Innovations For Improved Sustainability Of Ruminant Productions Systems
Duthie, C.-A. (PI), Nicoll, L. (CoI), Gordon, J. (CoI), Broadbent, C. (CoI), McLean, K. (CoI), Miller, G. (CoI), Ferguson, H. (CoI) & Morgan-Davies, C. (CoI)
Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services
1/04/22 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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
Project: Research

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Morgan-Davies, C., Tesniere, G., Dwyer, CM., Jorgensen, G. H. M., Gonzalez-Garcia, E., Gautier, J.-M., Grova, L., Decandia, M., Kenyon, F., Caja, G., Halachmi, I., Godo, A., Sossidou, E., Patsios, S., Czizster, L., Keady, T. WJ., McClearn, B., Lagriffoul, G., Litalien, N., & Riaguas, L. (2024). TechCare: Technologies to manage the welfare of sheep and goats – from pilots to large-scale studies. In Book of Abstracts of the 75th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Vol. 34, pp. 522) https://docs.eaap.org/boa/2024_Florence_EAAP_Book_Abstracts.pdf

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TechCare: Technologies to manage the welfare of sheep and goats – from pilots to large-scale studies. / Morgan-Davies, C; Tesniere, Germain; Dwyer, CM et al.
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