Raw data: Group level and individual activity of broiler chickens hatched in 3 different systems

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The aim of this study was to assess the effects of 3 hatching systems on flock activity using a commercial tracking system, and to compare these findings to individual activity measured under experimental conditions. As this experiment was part of a larger study, it was possible to investigate the effects of vaccination on individual activity. In study 1, flock activity was measured in chickens that hatched either conventionally in the hatchery (HH), in a system which provided nutrition in the hatcher (HF), or on-farm (OH). Chickens were reared in 2 batches, in 12 pens/batch (1,155 animals/pen). One camera recorded top-view images of each pen. A daily activity index (moved pixels/total pixels x 100) was calculated by automated image analysis. In study 2, individual activity was measured under experimental conditions using an ultra-wideband (UWB) system. Chickens from the 3 hatching systems were reared in 3 pens (one pen/treatment, 30 animals/pen). At d14, UWB-tags were attached to 5 chickens/pen, which tracked the distances moved (DM).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/N879AI
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.102706
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/N879AI
Provenance
Creator Giersberg, Mona ORCID logo; Molenaar, Roos ORCID logo; de Jong, Ingrid (ORCID: 0000-0003-1811-499X); De Baere, Kris; Kemp, Bas ORCID logo; van den Brand, Henry (ORCID: 0000-0003-0477-169X); Rodenburg, Bas ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Giersberg, Mona
Publication Year 2023
Rights CC-BY-4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Contact Giersberg, Mona (Utrecht University)
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Discipline Agricultural Sciences; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Medicine