Towards improving efficiency through leg health and reproductive performance in commercial duck breeding flocks

通过商业鸭群的腿部健康和繁殖性能提高效率

• 批准号: 51890
• 金额: $ 27.37万
• 依托单位: CHERRY VALLEY FARMS (UK) LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=51890
• 关键词: Towards; improving; efficiency; through; leg

Our motivation is to improve efficiency through increases in productivity through improved reproductive performance and reduction in wastage via leg health culls. We will achieve this by bringing together innovations in data capture, sensors, image recognition, genomics and novel analytical techniques to develop an integrated data driven solution for the whole duck production chain. Our tripartite collaborative project brings together world leading duck breeding company, Cherry Valley Farms (CVF), The Roslin Institute (RI) and Hudson & Sanders (H&S). The collaborative team brings end-to-end research, innovation and exploitation potential through the entire duck production chain. At the end of the ISCF-TFP feasibility study we aim to have developed and evaluated a range of complementary tools to manage duck flocks and capture data associated with reproductive performance and leg health/gait analysis. These tools can be exploited both by duck breeding companies to more accurately capture relevant data on an individual basis to improve genetic progress. In addition, flock based predictors of performance and perturbations of performance, including welfare and behaviour, linked to flock output will be assessed. The outputs from our project will be passed down the breeding pyramid, not only as improved genetic stock, but in the form of management strategies as technical support offered to customers. This will enable companies like H&S to develop disruptive technologies and deliver integrated solutions that have the potential to improve productivity and sustainability of duck production. The proposed innovation is in combination of technologies (sensors, image recognition, genomic pedigree) being combined to improve reproduction and welfare at both the genetic level (requiring individual birds data) and commercial population level. Together, exploitation of the innovations at both individual and flock level will enable us to improve productivity, reduce wastage, reducing the competition of crops for animal feed and decreasing the environmental footprint of production and thus contribute to delivering the target of net zero emissions from agriculture.

我们的动机是通过提高生产力来提高效率，通过改善生殖性能和通过腿部健康淘汰减少浪费。我们将通过整合数据采集、传感器、图像识别、基因组学和新型分析技术的创新来实现这一目标，为整个鸭子生产链开发一个集成的数据驱动解决方案。我们的三方合作项目汇集了世界领先的鸭养殖公司，樱桃谷农场（CVF），罗斯林研究所（RI）和哈德逊和桑德斯（H&S）。合作团队通过整个鸭生产链带来端到端的研究，创新和开发潜力。在ISCF-TFP可行性研究结束时，我们的目标是开发和评估一系列补充工具，以管理鸭群并捕获与繁殖性能和腿部健康/步态分析相关的数据。这些工具可以被鸭子养殖公司利用，以更准确地获取个体相关数据，以改善遗传进展。此外，羊群为基础的预测性能和扰动的性能，包括福利和行为，与羊群输出将进行评估。我们项目的产出将通过育种金字塔传递下去，不仅作为改良的遗传资源，而且作为管理策略的形式提供给客户的技术支持。这将使像H&S这样的公司能够开发颠覆性技术，并提供集成解决方案，这些解决方案有可能提高鸭子生产的生产力和可持续性。拟议的创新是结合技术（传感器，图像识别，基因组谱系）相结合，以改善遗传水平（需要个体鸟类数据）和商业种群水平的繁殖和福利。在个体和群体层面上利用创新将使我们能够提高生产力，减少浪费，减少作物对动物饲料的竞争，减少生产的环境足迹，从而有助于实现农业净零排放的目标。