This project used existing precision livestock farming technology like EID tags (Electronic Identification) and readers, electronic scales and automated handling equipment, and integrated the technology with the “Happy Factor” algorithm to enable selective treatment of individual animals based on their pre...
Byline: By ANDREW FORGRAVE Rural Affairs EditorDaily Post (Liverpool, England)
in the right sheep handling technology. if you don’t use eid tags currently, enter the individual cost per tag. next, select a racewell sheep handler or auto drafter to calculate how soon you will see a return from your investment on these products. do you currently use eid tags?
This paper is novel as it draws on data from 36 sheep farmers in the UK and applies Normalization Process Theory (NPT) to gain an understanding of the reasons they do or do not use EID related precision technology on their farms. The interviews were tape recorded, transcribed verbatim and ...
Quality control of the RNA-Seq reads was performed using FastQC (http://www. bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/). Clean reads were obtained by removing reads containing adapter and ploy-N as well as low quality reads from raw data. At the same time, the Q30, GC content and ...