• 한국축산시설환경학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2000

A automated noncontact weight system for pigs consisted of a CCD-type video camera and 10 photo sensors connected to a computer. In the experiment 20 pigs(Large Yorkshire $\times$ Landrace breed) weighing from 95kg to 115kg were used. Pig's original image data was transformed to a binary image an image excluding head and tail portion from the whole binary image and the area of pig was calculated. Then pig's volume was calculated by multiplying the area by the body hight measured with photo sensors. The correlation equation between the above volume(x) and pig's weight was y=0.0007 x -9.2152($R^2$=0.9965) Performance of a automated noncontact weighing system for pigs was tested with this equation. The results showed $\pm$0.65kg average error and 1.63kg maximum error. It was concluded that performance of a automated noncontact weighing system is excellent.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2020

정부의 축산업 및 축산차량 등록제 실시로 인하여, 양돈농가에서는 의무적으로 출입구에 차단장치를 설치하여야 하며 출입기록을 관리하여야 한다. 또한, 양돈장의 생물보안을 위해서도 출입인원과 차량, 동물 등의 양돈장 출입과 소독기록 등을 관리하여야한다. 본 연구에서는, RFID와 웹서버 시스템을 이용한 양돈장 출입차단 및 기록장치를 개발하였다. 사람의 출입관리를 위하여 13.56MHz의 접촉식 RFID 시스템을 개발하였으며, 차량 출입관리를 위해서는 900MHz RFID 시스템을 이용한 차량인식 시스템을 개발하였다. 시험결과 시스템 작동, 인식, 웹서버 데이터 저장 등의 성능이 양호한 것으로 판단되었다. 이후, 차량 출입시스템과 사람 출입 및 소독기록장치를 연동하여 시험을 실시하였으며, 기록된 데이터는 전용 프로그램을 이용하여 웹서버의 DB에 저장하였다. 성능시험결과, 출입관리와 데이터관리에 문제가 없는 것으로 판단되었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.1310-1315
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• 1999

Air quality in confinement pig houses is important to production and health. Mechanical ventilation and confinement is known to be the most practical tool for maintaining adequate air quality in pig houses through extensive researches since Millier (1950) invented the 'slotted inlet' ventilation system. A variety of mechanical ventilation systems have been applied to confined nursery pig houses in Korea without scientific verification of their ventilation effectiveness. Ventilation systems with three feasible combinations (NA, NB, and NC) of inlets and outlets in a confined nursery pig house were tested to evaluate their ventilation efficiency, of which the one with the performance was supposed to be taken as a standard ventilation system for nursery pig houses in Korea. Field data of air velocity and temperature fields, and ammonia concentration with three ventilation systems were taken and compared to determine the best system. The air velocity and temperature fields predicted by the PHOENICS computer program were also validated against the available experimental data to investigate the feasibility of computer simulation of air and temperature distribution with an acceptable accuracy in a confined house. NC system with duct-induced in-coming air, performed best among the three different ventilation systems, which created higher velocity field and evener distribution ($2.5m/s{\pm}0.3m/s$) over the space with a Reynolds number of $10^4$. The experimental data obtained also fitted well with the simulated values using the modified PHOENICS, which suggested a viable tool for the prediction of air and temperature field with given calculation geometries.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1993년도 Proceedings of International Conference for Agricultural Machinery and Process Engineering
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• pp.393-402
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• 1993

Two field test installations are discussed. In the first one a new ammonia sensor and an accurate ventilation rate sensor are combined. They are installed in the exhaust chimney in a ventilated pig house. The relative humidity and the room temperature are measured as well. In the second one, an in situ NH$_3$longrightarrowNO converter with subsequent NOx analyser is also being added for accurate ammonia measurement . In this way , the continuous measurement of the total NH$_3$emission can be obtained , the performance of the NH$_3$ sensor can be evaluated, and the ammonia reduction techniques can be tested. The outputs of measurement are fed into a data acquisition system then to a PC in the laboratory. There has been realised the first test installation with which research on the new ammonia sensor is carried out. The primary research results are presented.

• 한국축산시설환경학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2006

품종과 성 및 체중이 검정돈의 행동특성에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여 공인 종돈능력 검정소에서 검정중인 Duroc, Landrace, Yorkshire 및 Berkshire 등 4개 품종 32두의 행동패턴을 녹화한 자료의 비디오 분석을 실시하였다. 또한 4개 품종 8,477두를 대상으로 돼지의 주요 경제형질인 일당증체량, 90kg 도달일령 및 사료요구율에 영향을 미치는 품종 및 성의 효과를 추정하였다. 검정돈의 품종에 따른 행동특성의 차이는 Berkshire 종이 앞으로 엎드린 자세와 앉은 자세로 보낸 시간의 비율이 상대적으로 낮고 걷는 동작, 물을 마시는 동작 및 사료를 먹는 동작으로 보내는 시간의 비율이 다른 품종에 비하여 상대적으로 높게 나타났다. 성에 따라서는 수퇘지가 서있는 자세로 보낸 시간과 사회성 행동으로 보낸 시간 비율이 높게 나타났다. 체중에 따라서는 60kg 이상의 체중에서 30kg 이하의 돼지에 비하여 앞으로 엎드린 자세로 보낸 시간의 비율이 낮았으며, 서있는 시간의 비율이 높게 나타났다. 그러나 그 외의 행동과 동작으로 보낸 시간의 비율은 차이가 없었다. 검정돈의 모든 형질에서 품종 간에 뚜렷한 차이를 나타내었으며, 일당증체량은 Duroc 종이 가장 우수하였고, 90kg 도달일령은 Berkshire 종이 가장 불량하였다. 사료요구율은 Duroc 종이 가장 우수하였고 Yorkshire 종과 Berkshire 종이 불량하였다. 검정돈의 각 형질에 대한 성별에 따른 차이를 보면 일당증체량은 수퇘지가 양호하였고 90kg 도달일령은 차이가 없었으며, 사료 요구율은 수퇘지가 우수하였다. 결론적으로 각각의 행동이나 동작으로 보낸 시간의 비율이 품종과 성 및 체중에 따라 차이가 있음을 알 수 있는데, 이는 품종과 성 및 성장단계에 따라 돼지가 가지는 특유의 행동패턴을 나타낸 것으로 판단된다. 돼지의 품종과 성 및 성장단계에 따라 나타나는 특유의 행동특성과 생산성, 취급, 관리와의 연계에 대한 진전된 연구가 필요한 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제65권2호
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• pp.365-376
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• 2023

Pig breeding management directly contributes to the profitability of pig farms, and pregnancy diagnosis is an important factor in breeding management. Therefore, the need to diagnose pregnancy in sows is emphasized, and various studies have been conducted in this area. We propose a computer-aided diagnosis system to assist livestock farmers to diagnose sow pregnancy through ultrasound. Methods for diagnosing pregnancy in sows through ultrasound include the Doppler method, which measures the heart rate and pulse status, and the echo method, which diagnoses by amplitude depth technique. We propose a method that uses deep learning algorithms on ultrasonography, which is part of the echo method. As deep learning-based classification algorithms, Inception-v4, Xception, and EfficientNetV2 were used and compared to find the optimal algorithm for pregnancy diagnosis in sows. Gaussian and speckle noises were added to the ultrasound images according to the characteristics of the ultrasonography, which is easily affected by noise from the surrounding environments. Both the original and noise added ultrasound images of sows were tested together to determine the suitability of the proposed method on farms. The pregnancy diagnosis performance on the original ultrasound images achieved 0.99 in accuracy in the highest case and on the ultrasound images with noises, the performance achieved 0.98 in accuracy. The diagnosis performance achieved 0.96 in accuracy even when the intensity of noise was strong, proving its robustness against noise.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2009

돼지의 장 및 분변에서 분리한 14종의 유산균으로부터 항세균 활성물질을 분석하였다. 각 균주의 세포배양액을 대상으로 여러 종류의 단백질 분해효소와 열, 알칼리 처리 등을 수행한 후 활성도를 조사한 결과, 효소 및 열처리 시료에서는 활성도가 유지되었으나, 1M의 NaOH로 중화 처리한 시료에서는 활성도가 사라짐에 따라, 항세균 활성물질이 단백질성이라기보다 유기산일 가능성이 큰 것으로 나타났다. Sep-pak $C_{18}$ Cartridges을 이용한 음이온 추출실험과 Bio-LC system을 이용한 high performance anion exchange chromatography를 실시하여 물질을 정제한 결과, 주요 활성물질로 옥살산, 구연산, 젖산 및 초산 등, 4종류의 유기산이 검출되었다. 이중 젖산은 각 균주에 따라 전체 유기산의 54~77%를 차지하는 것으로 나타나 유기산 중에서도 일차적인 항세균 활성물질일 것으로 추정된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.1742-1750
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• 2015

As a novel approach for disease control and prevention, nutritional modulation of the intestinal health has been proved. However, It is still unknown whether branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) is needed to maintain intestinal immune-related function. The objective of this study was to determine whether BCAA supplementation in protein restricted diet affects growth performance, intestinal barrier function and modulates post-weaning gut disorders. One hundred and eight weaned piglets ($7.96{\pm}0.26kg$) were randomly fed one of the three diets including a control diet (21% crude protein [CP], CON), a protein restricted diet (17% CP, PR) and a BCAA diet (BCAA supplementation in the PR diet) for 14 d. The growth performance, plasma amino acid concentrations, small intestinal morphology and intestinal immunoglobulins were tested. First, average daily gain (ADG) (p<0.05) and average daily feed intake (ADFI) (p<0.05) of weaned pigs in PR group were lower, while gain:feed ratio was lower than the CON group (p<0.05). Compared with PR group, BCAA group improved ADG (p<0.05), ADFI (p<0.05) and feed:gain ratio (p<0.05) of piglets. The growth performance data between CON and BCAA groups was not different (p>0.05). The PR and BCAA treatments had a higher (p<0.05) plasma concentration of methionine and threonine than the CON treatment. The level of some essential and functional amino acids (such as arginine, phenylalanine, histidine, glutamine etc.) in plasma of the PR group was lower (p<0.05) than that of the CON group. Compared with CON group, BCAA supplementation significantly increased BCAA concentrations (p<0.01) and decreased urea concentration (p<0.01) in pig plasma indicating that the efficiency of dietary nitrogen utilization was increased. Compared with CON group, the small intestine of piglets fed PR diet showed villous atrophy, increasing of intra-epithelial lymphocytes (IELs) number (p<0.05) and declining of the immunoglobulin concentration, including jejunal immunoglobulin A (IgA) (p = 0.04), secreted IgA (sIgA) (p = 0.03) and immunoglobulin M (p = 0.08), and ileal IgA (p = 0.01) and immunoglobulin G (p = 0.08). The BCAA supplementation increased villous height in the duodenum (p<0.01), reversed the trend of an increasing IELs number. Notably, BCAA supplementation increased levels of jejunal and ileal immunoglobulin mentioned above. In conclusion, BCAA supplementation to protein restricted diet improved intestinal immune defense function by protecting villous morphology and by increasing levels of intestinal immunoglobulins in weaned piglets. Our finding has the important implication that BCAA may be used to reduce the negative effects of a protein restricted diet on growth performance and intestinal immunity in weaned piglets.

• Animal Bioscience
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• 제34권10호
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• pp.1643-1652
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• 2021

Objective: Two experiments were conducted to provide a new approach for evaluating feed nutritional value by metabolizable glucose (MG) in piglet diets with different levels of starch and crude fiber. In Exp 1, a regression equation for MG was generated. In Exp 2, the equation was verified, and the optimal growth performance of piglets under appropriate MG levels was tested. Methods: In Exp 1, 20 weaned piglets (7.74±0.81 kg body weight [BW]) were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 treatments, including the basal diet containing different levels of MG (starch, 25.80%, 31.67%, 45.71%, 49.36%; crude fiber, 1.23%, 1.35%, 1.80%, 1.51%). The piglets were implanted with an ileal fistula, cannulation of the carotid artery, portal vein, and mesenteric artery. The chyme from the ileum fistula and blood samples were collected. In Exp 2, 30 weaned piglets (8.96±0.50 kg BW) were randomly assigned to 1 of 5 treatments, including the experimental diets with different levels of MG (37.6, 132.5, 300.0, 354.3, and 412.5 g/kg). The piglets' BW, and feed consumption were recorded to calculate growth performance during the 28-d experiment. Results: In Exp 1, the MG levels in 4 diets were 239.62, 280.68, 400.79, and 454.35 g/kg. The regression equation for the MG levels and dietary nutrients was: Y (MG) = 12.13×X₁ (starch)+23.18×X₂ (crude fiber)-196.44 (R² = 0.9989, p = 0.033). In Exp 2, treatments with 132.5 and 300.0 g/kg MG significantly (p<0.05) increased average daily gain and feed conversion efficiency of weaned piglets, increased digestibility of crude fat, and had no effect on digestibility of crude protein compared to 300.0 to 412.5 g/kg MG. Conclusion: The pig model combining the ileum fistula and cannulation of blood vessels was successfully used to determine the dietary MG levels. The recommended MG level in weaned pig diets is 132.5 to 300.0 g/kg.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.319-323
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• 2008

식육 중 플로르페니콜을 분석하기 위하여 시료를 ethyl acetate로 추출 농축한 후 이 농축액을 acetonitrile과 n-hexane을 가하여 분획하고, acetonitrile층을 분리하여 농축하였다. 이를 Oasis HLB cartridge로 정제하고 $C_{18}$ 컬럼을 이용한 HPLC-FLD로 분석하였다. 분석법은 표준물질 $0.05{\sim}1.0\;mg/kg$의 농도범위에서 직선성($r^2=0.9997$)을 나타냈으며, 검출한계는 0.012 mg/kg, 정량한계는 0.039 mg/kg이었다. 또한 회수율은 쇠고기에서 $87.6{\sim}92.3%$, 돼지고기에서 $85.6{\sim}93.3%$, 닭고기에서 $92.9{\sim}95.6%$이었으며, 상대표준편차(RSD)는 쇠고기, 돼지고기, 닭고기에서 각각 $1.1{\sim}4.8%$, $1.1{\sim}3.4%$, $1.0{\sim}5.3%$이었다. 본 연구에서 확립된 분석방법으로 유통 중인 식육(쇠고기, 돼지고기, 닭고기) 150건을 전국 지역(서울, 부산, 대구, 대전, 광주)별로 수거하여 플로르페니콜의 잔류 실태를 조사한 결과, 돼지고기 1건에서 0.040 mg/kg이 검출되었으며, 돼지고기 2건, 쇠고기 1건, 닭고기 2건에서는 검출되었으나 정량한계 미만의 수준이었다. 이들 결과로부터 우리나라에서 유통 중인 조사한 식육 150건의 플로르페니콜 잔류량은 모두 국제기준에 적합한 것으로 조사되었다.