SI_1: Advancements in Precision Animal Farming

Title:

Advancements in Precision Animal Farming: Enhancing Welfare, Productivity, and Sustainability

Guest Editors: 

Prof. Dr. Hijran Yavuzcan Yildiz

Affiliation: Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

Research interests: Biosecurity, fish welfare, fish health, Immune response, feed additives, sustainable aquaculture

Email: hijranyavuzcanyildiz@gmail.com ; yavuzcan@ankara.edu.tr

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6567-7467 

Prof. Dr. Youssef A. Attia

Affiliation: Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Research interests: Poultry farming, poultry nutrition, poultry meat and egg production and quality, poultry immune and health, feed additives, sustainable poultry production.

Email: yaattia@kau.edu.sa; attia0103753095@gmail.com

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6505-3240

Prof. Dr. Shakira Ghazanfar

Affiliation: Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Research interests: Microbiology, probiotics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, microbial AI.

Email: shakira_akmal@yahoo.com

ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6277-5106

Prof. Dr. Abdallah Tageldein Mansour

Affiliation: Fish and Animal Production Department, College of Agricultural and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-hofuf, Saudi Arabia.

Research interests: Aquatic animal physiology, innate immunology, feed additives, biotic and abiotic stressors on aquatic animals.

Email: amansour@kfu.edu.sa

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5963-5276

 

Background:

The global demand for animal-derived products is rising steadily, placing high pressure on livestock production systems to enhance efficiency, ensure animal welfare, and minimize environmental impact. Precision animal farming has emerged as a pivotal model to address these multifaceted challenges. By leveraging advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), computer vision, sensor networks, and big data analytics, precision animal farming enables the continuous, automated real-time monitoring of animals and their environment.

This shift from group-level management to individual animal care is transformative. It allows for early disease detection, optimized feeding, precise reproductive management, and real-time assessment of welfare indicators. The importance of this Special Issue lies in its timeliness. As the field rapidly evolves, there is a critical need to consolidate recent research breakthroughs, address implementation challenges, and chart a course for the future. In this special issue we intended to collect different studies covering all culture species (ruminants, poultry, and aquatic animals). This issue will serve as a vital resource for researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers, showcasing how data-driven decision-making can lead to more resilient, ethical, and sustainable animal agriculture.

Keywords:

• Precision livestock farming
• Smart animal production
• Sensors
• Twin technology
• Automated monitoring
• Big data analytics
• Machine learning
• Digital agriculture
• Smart poultry production
• Aquaculture
• Behavioral analysis
• Early disease detection
• Environmental impact
• Animal welfare
• Sustainable animal protein production

Deadline: 31 Dec. 2026 (submission is open).

Guidelines:

All types of manuscripts are acceptable in this special issue (article, short communication, review, short review, and editorial). The manuscripts should be submitted by the online submission system and will follow the same guidelines and editorial workflow as regular manuscripts. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except preprint and conference proceedings papers). 

The accepted manuscripts will be published continuously in the current regular issue and highlighted in the special issue to collect authors and readers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions.

Article processing charge: With no processing and publication fees.

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