Poultry
The objective of the poultry group is to develop tools for broiler farmers and veterinarians, in which different data sources are combined to give more insights into the performance and risk of endemic diseases at farm level. The poultry group is currently working with data from the Netherlands and Poland. These data are from different broiler production systems (integrated and private farms). Therefore, the final tool will differ between the two countries. The Polish tool will be focused more specifically on data visualisation of data from within the integration, while in the Netherlands national monitoring data and laboratory data will be integrated.
Methods
Poultry tool
Poultry tool
The first step is to digitalise, clean, and combine the currently available datasets on flock level. These are: production data from the poultry farm and slaughterhouse, foot lesion scores, data on drug usage (and for Poland vaccinations as well), and laboratory results of multiple diseases. Next, the data will be visualised in dashboards. We will analyse the data to see which variables are useful for prediction of disease or antibiotic use. The tools are developed in collaboration with stakeholders: primarily farmers and veterinarians, who are involved at the start through an online questionnaire, and in the rest of the process through small-scale interviews and focus groups. Together, it is decided on which specific diseases the tools should focus.
Poultry Barometer - NL
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