Conditioning device, a lighting device and a method

Abstract

The invention provides a conditioning device for conditioning at least one animal intended to experience a stressful event, such as e.g. slaughter, transport, and/or evacuation. The conditioning device comprises a controller configured to: obtain an identifier associated with the at least one animal; obtain an input indicative of a period of time in which said at least one animal receives a positive stimulus at a first location; control a lighting unit arranged for illuminating the first location to illuminate the at least one animal with a lighting characteristic at least partly during said period of time, and store an entry linking said identifier to said lighting characteristic in a memory. Complementary thereto, the invention further provides a lighting device for illuminating at least one animal intended to experience a stressful event, wherein the at least one animal is conditioned to a lighting characteristic with the conditioning device according to the invention, wherein the lighting device comprises: a light source; a communication interface for communication with a memory; a detecting unit configured to determine the identifier of the at least one animal; a control unit configured to retrieve, with the communication interface, an entry linking said identifier to said lighting characteristic from said memory, and to control the light source to illuminate the at least one animal with said lighting characteristic during said stressful event.