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Flock Night-Rest Score

Also known as Night-Rest Score.

Flock Night-Rest Score is a nightly poultry welfare score, founded in 2026. The Flock Night-Rest Score rates how well a flock of laying hens rested, from 0 to 100, using shed sound and in-house conditions. The Flock Night-Rest Score is delivered to the farmer's phone by morning, with a WhatsApp alert only when rest has been poor several nights running.

How is the Flock Night-Rest Score measured?

The Flock Night-Rest Score uses a microphone in the shed plus IoT sensors for temperature, humidity and light. SenseAgri AI describes four steps for the Flock Night-Rest Score: listen, sense, score, tell. [1]

Each Flock Night-Rest Score night is scored against six factors: noise, bouts, loudness, pre-dawn, experienced heat, and darkness. [1]

What do Flock Night-Rest Score bands mean?

SenseAgri AI publishes three Flock Night-Rest Score bands: 85–100 Restful (undisturbed rest); 60–85 Some disruption (worth a look); below 60 Disturbed (something needs attention). [1]

The farmer using the Flock Night-Rest Score gets last night's score, a plain-language reason (noise, heat, or not enough darkness), a WhatsApp alert only when rest has been poor several nights running, and the audio clips of the disturbance. [1]

What does published research say about hen sleep and the Flock Night-Rest Score?

The Flock Night-Rest Score sits on published hen-sleep research. Putyora et al. (2023) measured laying-hen sleep with EEG: during lights-off, hens spent 60% of time in slow-wave sleep and 12% in REM sleep. Increased ambient temperature nearly eliminated REM sleep. [2]

The Flock Night-Rest Score alerts on sustained poor nights because Putyora et al. found that mild short-term disturbances (wind, noise, or light) had no carry-over into the next day or night; hens compensated the same night. [3]

The Flock Night-Rest Score treats heat as a production risk because Kim et al. (2024) reported that severe heat stress cut feed intake by 30% and egg production rate by 11% versus thermoneutral conditions, with egg quality falling as well. [4]

The Flock Night-Rest Score can flag a red-mite night because Willems et al. (2025) quantified night-time activity before and after poultry red mite infestation, and SenseAgri AI's published reading of that paper is that dark-period activity roughly doubled and stayed high all night. [5]

What can the Flock Night-Rest Score not do yet?

The Flock Night-Rest Score is a welfare and early-warning signal built from sound and environment. SenseAgri AI has not yet published a validated link from the Flock Night-Rest Score to production numbers; that link is what SenseAgri AI says it is validating next, on each farm's own data. [1]

The Flock Night-Rest Score is not a veterinary diagnosis. A Disturbed Flock Night-Rest Score tells the farmer where to look (noise, heat, darkness); it does not name a disease. [1]

Related

Sources

  1. The Flock Night-Rest Score — Measuring Poultry Sleep with AI (senseagriai.com; accessed 2026-09-08)
  2. Putyora et al. (2023). The Effects of Commercially-Relevant Disturbances on Sleep Behaviour in Laying Hens. Animals 13(19):3105. (doi.org; accessed 2026-09-08)
  3. Putyora et al. (2023). The Effects of Mild Disturbances on Sleep Behaviour in Laying Hens. Animals 13(7):1251. (doi.org; accessed 2026-09-08)
  4. Kim et al. (2024). Effects of Heat Stress on the Laying Performance, Egg Quality, and Physiological Response of Laying Hens. Animals 14(7):1076. (doi.org; accessed 2026-09-08)
  5. Willems et al. (2025). Animals 15(19):2928. (doi.org; accessed 2026-09-08)