By Mirage News
Publication Date: 2025-11-21 19:16:00
At a time when turkey is on the minds of millions of Americans, a team of researchers led by an animal scientist at Penn State University has successfully tested a new way for poultry producers to keep track of their turkeys.
Monitoring the behavior and health of poultry animals on large commercial farms is critical to productivity and animal welfare and is a costly, time-consuming and labor-intensive task. To help producers keep track of the birds’ behavior, researchers tested a new method using a small drone equipped with a camera and computer vision – a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables the recognition and processing of visual information – to automatically detect what turkeys are doing.
Their study is now available online ahead of publication in the December issue of Poultry Science.
The study was the first to test whether a drone combined with a computer vision model could automatically detect various turkey behaviors from overhead video, the study said…
