The dataset supplements the journal article "Elevated platforms with integrated weighing beams allow automatic monitoring of usage and activity in broiler chickens" by H. Schomburg, J. Malchow, O. Sanders, J. Knöll and L. Schrader, that appeared in Smart Agricultural Technology 3 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2022.100095. The file archives trial1.zip and trial2.zip contain csv files with platform weighing system data measured from June 19, 2019 to July 22, 2019 (trial 1) and from September 9, 2019 to October 14, 2019 (trial 2) in a broiler chicken barn at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry, Celle. A detailed description of data structure is given in 00_hl_weighing_system_data_overview.txt.

This research was part of the EU-China HealthyLivestock project. HealthyLivestock is funded by the European Union H2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement number 773436.