UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 10 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Body weight monitoring is one of the most important tools for poultry farmers. It provides valuable information about growth, uniformity, feed conversion efficiency - how well birds turn feed into meat - and the occurrence of diseases in a flock. But obtaining frequent and accurate body weight measurements is a significant challenge in commercial poultry production, according to researchers at Penn State who may have developed a solution. They recently found that a camera paired with artificial intelligence (AI) could monitor individual turkeys and make reasonably accurate bodyweight predictions up to three weeks into t...