Animal Feeding

Feeding animals is a job of buckets, scoops, and judgment. The worker reads how much is left in the trough, how the herd is crowding the gate, and whether one animal is hanging back, then adjusts the ration on the spot. A robot can lift a bucket. Knowing when to pour and when to wait is the hard part.

A typical morning runs from the feed store to the pens and back. Workers mix pellets, silage, hay, or wet mash, carry loads over uneven ground, open gates with one hand while holding a full pail in the other, and distribute feed so the dominant animals do not take everything. They check water lines and skim dirty troughs as they go.

We record all of it from a head-mounted camera on the worker and from fixed cameras positioned along the feed alley, synchronized so a researcher can see both the hand on the scoop and the animals reacting. Recording covers full shifts, in working barns and yards, in five countries. Participants are consented and paid, and the footage is cleared for commercial model training.

Episode segmentation diagramONE EPISODE01Measure02Carry03Distribute04Observe05CleanEACH STEP: LANGUAGE LABEL · OUTCOME TAG · OPTIONAL HAND / OBJECT TRACKS
A typical animal feeding episode, cut into the steps your labels attach to.

Each shift is cut into episodes such as mixing a batch, carrying it to pen four, or clearing a blocked feeder. Steps get plain-language labels and success or failure tags. Hand, object, and tool tracking is available on request. Delivery lands in your own schema in your own storage.

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