About the Authors

Guoming Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoming Li, Xue Hui

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi State, United States of America, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa State, United States of America

Xue Hui

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoming Li, Xue Hui

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation College of Energy and Intelligent Engineering, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Yang Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yzhao@utk.edu (YZ); dchesser@abe.msstate.edu (GDC)

‡ YZ, WZ and JLP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee State, United States of America

Wei Zhai

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ YZ, WZ and JLP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi State, United States of America

Joseph L. Purswell

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ YZ, WZ and JLP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation USDA, Agriculture Research Service, Poultry Research Unit, Starkville, Mississippi State, United States of America

Zach Porter

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi State, United States of America

Sabin Poudel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi State, United States of America

Linan Jia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi State, United States of America

Bo Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi State, United States of America

Gary D. Chesser

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yzhao@utk.edu (YZ); dchesser@abe.msstate.edu (GDC)

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi State, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.