With BIRDe (Bird Individual Ration Dispenser-electronic), you no longer need cages to know what your chickens are eating.

Abstract

INRAE's research projects sometimes involve the use of animals for scientific purposes. A detailed understanding of animal feed consumption and efficiency is one of the central themes in animal production. It is crucial to the development of animal production systems through nutrition and animal breeding. In the case of large animals, industrial equipment enabling individual feed consumption to be measured has been available for several decades, such as electronic troughs for ruminants and pigs. In the case of poultry, on the other hand, measuring feed consumption on an individual basis has proved difficult...