X-ray images of laying hens

• Sallam Mohammed Abdallah - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Animal Biosciences

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• Lina Göransson - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare

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• Anne Larsen - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare
• Stefan Gunnarsson - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare

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• Helena Wall - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare

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• Martin Johnsson - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Animal Biosciences

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• Dirk-Jan De Koning - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Animal Biosciences

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• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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• Data are freely accessible

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• English

• Animal

168 birds (laying hens) in a commercial farm in Sweden.

• Observational study

Each bird was x-rayed several times: 3-5 times during their life, 1 time post-mortem, and 1 time for its dissected tibia and keel bones. The exact number of images per each bird is tabled in "number_of_images_per_bird.txt" The experiment was basically on 200 bird, but some birds (e.g. with ID 002) have been excluded form the x-raying for some reasons, e.g. they lost their ID tag during the experiment or get died.

• 2021-01-01 - 2023-10-30

168

• Still image

• Animalia
• Chordata
• Aves
• Pangalliformes
• Gallus galliformes

Field/Intervention experiment

Birds were tagged with unique IDs in a commercial farm, and x-rayed (using bird restraint and portable X-ray machine) on farm condition at 16, 29, 42, 55, 86 weeks of age. Bird were also also x-rayed post-mortem for their whole-body and dissected bones.

• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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Department of Animal Biosciences

Swedish Ethical Review Authority - 5.8.18-16645/2020

The study received ethical approval from the Gothenburg Local Ethics Committee of the Swedish National Board for Laboratory Animals (Reference 5.8.18-16645/2020)

• Agricultural science
• Veterinary science
• Animal and dairy science

• X-ray

• keel bone
• Laying hens
• x-ray images
• commercial layers