• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제61권3호
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• pp.147-153
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• 2019

A goal for swine farming is the improvement in the number of live-born and weaned piglets per sow. Hence, the effect of parities should consider the correlation between the component traits of reproductive performance, weaning, and duration. Sows were housed in farrowing pens (W 2.2 ${\times}$ D 1.8 ${\times}$ H 1.2 m) on a partially slatted plastic floor. Twenty sows used in this study were between the first and sixth parity in gilts (P1), parity 2-5 (P3), and parity 6-9 (P6). Data collection by parity was classified into three categories: (1) reproduction performance (gestation length, total number of piglets born, number of piglets live born, number of piglets stillborn, total piglet birth weight; (2) weaning traits (weaning period, number of piglets weaning, total piglets weaning weight); (3) duration traits (farrowing duration, placenta expulsion duration, time from last piglet to first placenta, average birth interval, and tail wagging behavior). Gestation length was higher in P6 than P1 and P3 of different parity sows. The maximum value in P1 and P3 was 117 days, but the median value in P6 was 117 days (p < 0.05). The total number of piglets born (p = 0.113), number of piglets live born (p = 0.118), number of still piglets born (p = 0.151), and total piglet birth weight (p = 0.117) were not affected by parity. The number of live piglets was higher than the other parities by an average of $15.6{\pm}2.1$ in P1. The duration of farrowing was the lowest at 22.2 min in P6, but the maximum value was 42.2 min more than other parities (p = 0.355). Weaning traits of sows also did not differ significantly (p > 0.05), but the weaning period from P1 was lower than that of the other parities (p = 0.170). The number of piglets weaned was 10 heads on average in P1, P3, and P6 (p < 0.05). However, the mean values of the total piglet weaning weight (p = 0.377) of P6 (62.0 10.4 kg) were higher than those of P1 (54.9 10.2 kg) and P3 (58.4 13.6 kg). The placenta expulsion duration was higher in P6 than that in P1 and P3 (p = 0.447). The time from the last piglet to first placenta was be lower in P3 than that of the other parities (p = 0.206). The average birth interval was higher in P3 than that of the other parities (p = 0.156). Tail wagging (count) behavior was higher in P6 than in the other parities (p = 0.065). The data showed that the reproduction performance, total piglets born, and weight were higher in the gilts group, and higher in the weaning trait than that in the P6 group. This study examined the relationship between reproductive performance, birth interval and tail motion according to sow parity. Regarding duration, farrowing duration was lower in P6 than that in the other parities, but placenta expulsion and tail wagging were higher in P6 than in the other parities. Therefore, it is possible that the results from these sows could be used as basic data for effective farm management.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.2148-2161
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• 2019

In this paper, we present a real-time cattle action recognition algorithm to detect the estrus phase of cattle from a live video stream. In order to classify cattle movement, specifically, to detect the mounting action, the most observable sign of the estrus phase, a simple yet effective feature description exploiting motion history images (MHI) is designed. By learning the proposed features using the support vector machine framework, various representative cattle actions, such as mounting, walking, tail wagging, and foot stamping, can be recognized robustly in complex scenes. Thanks to low complexity of the proposed action recognition algorithm, multiple cattle in three enclosures can be monitored simultaneously using a single fisheye camera. Through extensive experiments with real video streams, we confirmed that the proposed algorithm outperforms a conventional human action recognition algorithm by 18% in terms of recognition accuracy even with much smaller dimensional feature description.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.403-410
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• 2002

본 연구는 분만직전 한우의 전반적인 행동 패턴을 관찰하고자 수행되었다. 본 연구에서, 행동의 정확한 관찰을 위해 분만직전의 한우를 격리된 우사에 두고 time lapse VCR을 이용하여 48시간동안 행동을 촬영하여 scan point sampling 방법을 통하여 행동을 분석하였다. 그 결과 유지행동, 사회행동, 섭식행동을 주로 관찰할 수 있었다. 분만직전 한우의 48시간 동안의 행동별 분포도를 살펴보면, LD(가슴을 대고 누워있는 자세)가 38.2%로 가장 높은 빈도를 보였고, 다음으로 ST(서있는 자세)가 24.7%, EA(놓여있는 여물 또는 사료를 먹는 동작)가 10.7%, WA(걸어다니는 동작)가 7.2%, LR(가슴을 대고 누워서 반추 행동을 하고 있는 동작)이 5.6%, SR(서서 반추 행동을 하고 있는 동작)이 3.3%, TW(서서 꼬리를 흔드는 동작)이 3.1%, 그리고 SG(서서 자신을 핥는 동작)가 1.8%의 빈도를 보였으며, 그 외의 PG(새끼나 상대방을 핥아주는 동작), PC(머리를 좌 우로 흔들며 파리 등을 쫓아내는 동작)와 같은 행동들은 1% 미만이었다.