A system and method for tracing members of an animal population

A method for tracing a group of members of an animal population throughout a process including moving the group of members between a plurality of physically separate locations in a given order, the method comprising:

• obtaining, by a processing circuitry, a plurality of sets of identifiers of the group of members, each of the sets obtained by readings of identification devices, wherein (a) each identification device of the identification devices is attached to, and uniquely identifies, a respective member of the group of members, (b) the identifiers in each set of the sets are read (i) at a respective given physically separate location of the physically separate locations, (ii) by a respective given identification device reader of a plurality of identification device readers each being located at a respective physically separate location of the physically separate locations;
• (c) one or more partial sets of the sets do not include one or more respective missing identifiers of at least one member of the group of members;
• and
• adding, by the processing circuitry, the missing identifiers to the respective partial sets along with a confidence score indicating a level of confidence that the group of members associated with the missing identifiers were located at the respective physically separate location associated with the respective partial sets.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code, executable by at least one processing circuitry of a computer to perform a method for tracing a group of members of an animal population throughout a process including moving the group of members between a plurality of physically separate locations in a given order, the method comprising:

• obtaining, by a processing circuitry, a plurality of sets of identifiers of the group of members, each of the sets obtained by readings of identification devices, wherein (a) each identification device of the identification devices is attached to, and uniquely identifies, a respective member of the group of members, (b) the identifiers in each set of the sets are read (i) at a respective given physically separate location of the physically separate locations, (ii) by a respective given identification device reader of a plurality of identification device readers each being located at a respective physically separate location of the physically separate locations;
• (c) one or more partial sets of the sets do not include one or more respective missing identifiers of at least one member of the group of members;
• and
• adding, by the processing circuitry, the missing identifiers to the respective partial sets along with a confidence score indicating a level of confidence that the group of members associated with the missing identifiers were located at the respective physically separate location associated with the respective partial sets.