195 results about "Feedlot" patented technology

An animal feedlot management system is disclosed, wherein each feed delivery vehicle employed therein uses real-time virtual reality (VR) modelling and coordinate acquisition techniques supported upon an Internet-based (i.e., Cyberspace) communications platform in order to carry out various types of feedlot operations. Each feedlot vehicle has an on-board computer system which includes a VR subsystem, for accessing a VR database maintaining information representative of a VR model of the feedlot and the objects present therein (eg., tagged animals, pens, alley ways, feedbunks, buildings, vehicles, etc.

A highly automated non-confining system to continuously, or at selected time intervals identify, measure, monitor and manage the consumption behavior, substance intake, body weight and growth of individual animals in their usual production environment including range, pasture, feedlot, dairy and farm without disruption to typical behaviors in order to determine, analyze, model and predict a variety of conditions relating to animal health, productivity, efficiency and quality. A transmitter generally attached to the animal identifies the individual animal by a unique individual code. A weighing device measures animal weight while an animal is consuming substances. An antenna receives the unique signal from the transmitter and a transmitting and receiving device sends acquired signals to a computer and receives instructions from a computer. A computer acquires signals and modification factors incorporated in the computer generate an event or interval measurement of an animal's weight and gain, growth rate and substance consumption, and the animal behavior affecting the measurement. A visual identification mechanism marks cattle that the computer system has determined require intervention. The system models and predicts animal health and growth, performance, carcass characteristics, feed utilization, manure and methane output.

A highly automated method and system for providing individual animal electronic identification, measurement and value based management of cattle in a large cattle feedlot. Through the use of (1) a computer system integrated with (2) automatic individual animal identification (3) multiple measurement and remeasurement systems with automatic data input and (4) a cattle handling and sorting system, animals are individually (a) identified and (b) measured by weight, external dimensions and characteristics of internal body tissue. With this information together with animal physiological characteristics and historical data, the computer system calculates the optimum (c) slaughter weight, (d) economic end point and (e) marketing date for shipment to a packing plant. After measurement, individual animals are (f) sorted by direction of the computer in response to calculations from the measurements. The computer system also calculates from individual animal data and other data (g) each animal's pro rata share of total feed intake for the animal's feed group. The computer system (h) stores individual animal measurement, performance and location data, which is used by management to (i) select animals for shipment from the feedlot for slaughter at the optimum time. Following an animal's shipment to a slaughter facility, its identification in the computer system is used to (j) correlate the live animal physical characteristics and performance data to the measured and evaluated carcass characteristics data obtained during the slaughter process and (k) build a data base to more accurately identify and measure value-based characteristics in subsequent animals produced and fed for more effective value-based selection and management of those animals.

A highly automated non-confining system to continuously, or at selected time intervals identify, measure, monitor and manage the consumption behavior, substance intake, body weight and growth of individual animals in their usual production environment including range, pasture, feedlot, dairy and farm without disruption to typical behaviors in order to determine, analyze, model and predict a variety of conditions relating to animal health, productivity, efficiency and quality. A transmitter generally attached to the animal identifies the individual animal by a unique individual code. A weighing device measures animal weight while an animal is consuming substances. An antenna receives the unique signal from the transmitter and a transmitting and receiving device sends acquired signals to a computer and receives instructions from a computer. A computer acquires signals and modification factors incorporated in the computer generate an event or interval measurement of an animal's weight and gain, growth rate and substance consumption, and the animal behavior affecting the measurement. A visual identification mechanism marks cattle that the computer system has determined require intervention. The system models and predicts animal health and growth, performance, carcass characteristics, feed utilization, manure and methane output.

A system and method for managing a herd of animals possibly requiring medical treatment, such as cows in a feedlot. The animals are herded individually into a chute, where identification data is collected from a tag, and core temperature data is collected using a special non-contacting core temperature sensor. The animal is tagged with a color coded tag representing a range of temperatures into which that animal's temperature falls. The animal is then delivered to a pen corresponding to that range of temperatures, where appropriate medicinal treatment is automatically dosed and applied to the animal.

A system that compares, ranks, sorts and grades animals into groups of like kinds according to previously determined predicted maximum values. The system uses a single method such as multi-dimensional single voxel(s) of MR, NMR, MRI, ultrasound, C.A.T. scan, CT scan, P.E.T. scan, or a combination of these, or any equivalent internal measuring device, on a single occasion, to evaluate the animal and determine a number of days the animal must be fed to reach a maximum value. The system also combines internal evaluation with an external animal evaluation system to refine the number of days remaining for the animal to reach a maximum value, and the system, when used in a feedlot, will direct the animal to a feed pen based on the number of days remaining for the animal to reach maximum value.

The invention belongs to the technical field of poultry yard disinfection, and particularly relates to a method for disinfecting a chicken farm. The method for disinfecting the chicken farm comprises the following steps of: chicken house disinfection, utensil disinfection, chicken farm disinfection and personnel disinfection. By adopting the method for disinfecting the chicken farm, the immunity of chickens is increased, good chickens are raised, and good economic benefit is gained; and the selected disinfectant has the advantages of broad disinfection spectrum, low effective concentration, quick response, no harm to people and animal and stable performance, is easily dissolved in water, is convenient to use and easy to popularize, and has little residue after use.

An early alert system and a method for livestock disease detection are disclosed. An activity measurement zone (AMZ) is defined near an incentive device (e.g. a livestock feeder) with an RFID tag reader and a uniquely-designed feedlot fence crossbar-embedded RFID antenna, which amplifies multiple signal wavelengths in a single dipole antenna. The early alert system is configured to detect and count an animal's access into the AMZ with an RFID tag attached to the animal. If the animals' activity relative to the AMZ drops to an alarmingly low level (e.g. dropping below an alert trigger point) over time, then a user of the early alert system is informed of a potential health problem of the animal and may also be encouraged to inspect the animal in person for further determination of its current health and potential medical issues.

A system that compares, ranks, sorts and grades animals or carcasses into groups of like kinds according to previously determined predicted maximum values. For live animals, the system uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on a single occasion to evaluate the animal and determine a number of days the animal must be fed to reach a maximum value. For carcasses, the system evaluates the carcass to grade the quality and quantity of meat the carcass will provide. The system also combines MRI imaging with a three-dimensional system to refine the number of days remaining for the animal to reach a maximum value, and the system, when used in a feedlot, will direct the animal to a feed pen based on the number of days remaining for the animal to reach maximum value.

An ethanol unit and anaerobic digestion / bio-fertilizer unit are integrated with a cattle feedlot (or dairy operation), wherein a continuous, balanced process yields a sanitary, low- to zero-pollution, and economically efficient production of “clean beef” (or milk), fuel ethanol, and bio-gas / bio-fertilizer. Fossil fuel consumption is substantially reduced, even eliminated, and 100% of the cattle waste is treated in digesters wherein it is converted into medium-BTU gas (bio-gas), organic fertilizer and bio-compost. The ethanol unit serves the purposes of ethanol production, grain pretreatment to produce feed for the cattle and production of a thin stillage which is fed to the digesters. The grain is first processed in the ethanol unit, where the starch portion is converted into ethanol and CO2. The remaining portion is separated into the thin stillage and a wet cake which is fed directly to cattle as a superior ruminant animal ration which displaces certain traditional feed components, alters the standard starch to protein ratio, and significantly improves conversion efficiencies and meat / milk quality.

This invention relates to systems and methods for managing livestock, such as cattle, from conception to consumption. More particularly, this invention relates to systems and methods in which users, such as producers, feedlot managers, packers, buyers, sellers, and consumers, are brought together through shared information and improved communication. Users may access one or more applications, tools, and / or systems to increase the value of each animal, monitor and track each animal, and improve the efficiency of their operation.

Provided is a method for producing BSF. The method comprising: providing adult black soldier flies in a breeding farm of black soldier fly; and providing, in the breeding farm, an induction medium comprising sawdust and, on the induction medium, a breeding induction apparatus having a plurality of breeding grooves in which to allow the adult black soldier flies to lay eggs.

The invention relates to a pig fattening feed and belongs to the technical field of animal feeds. The pig fattening feed mainly solves the technical problems of overmuch fatty pork, high cost and low income which are caused by adopting concentrated feed to fast fatten pigs when the pigs are fattened before being taken to markets in the conventional feedlots. The pig fattening feed is prepared by mixing the following raw materials in a certain proportion: corn flour, soybean meal, bran, rock flour, calcium hydroxide, salt and premix, wherein the premix consists of vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin K3, biotin, niacin, calcium pantothenate, folic acid, choline chloride, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate, potassium iodide and sodium selenite. The pig fattening feed has the advantages of high feed utilization efficiency, low cost and high income.

Belonging to the field of biotechnologies, the invention discloses a competitive ELISA kit for detection of a peste-des-petits-ruminants virus antibody. The kit comprises a detection system composed of a coating antigen reaction solution and a monoclonal antibody reaction solution. The kit adopts prokaryotically expressed peste-des-petits-ruminants Nigeria 75 / 1 strain N protein as the coating antigen and employs a monoclonal antibody against N protein as the competitive antibody. The antibody against a peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in sheep serum is detected according to a competitive ELISA principle. The kit provided in the invention can rapidly and specifically detect the peste-des-petits-ruminants virus antibody in serum, and simultaneously has the advantages of large-scale production of monoclonal antibodies, good reaction specificity, high sensitivity, simple operation, low cost, stable, reliable and easily observable reaction results, thus being very suitable for import and export quarantine of sheep, food hygiene and screening of large batches of samples in livestock breeding farms, and being easy for large-scale popularization and application.

A method to identify morbid animals housed in a feedyard having a feed bunk, where the method includes providing a plurality of animal beacons and at least one beacon reader, placing the beacon reader adjacent the feed bunk, transmitting by a first animal beacon a first signal comprising a first unique identifier for a first animal wearing the first animal beacon, wherein the first animal is housed in the feedyard, receiving by the beacon reader the first signal, and based upon the first signal, determining a proximity of the first animal to the feed bunk.

The present invention is directed to method for reducing a population of a target pathogen in an animal or within a feedlot. The method involves administering one or more than one controlled release bacteriophage strain or phage component, or both, to the animal, so that the one, or more than one bacteriophage strain is released in vivo and adsorbs to the one or more than one target pathogen, thereby reducing the one, or more than one pathogen from the animal. The controlled release bacteriophage strain or phage component may be administered as a treatment dose prior to further processing of the animal, a treatment dose followed by a maintenance dose, or a maintenance dose, to manage feedlot target pathogens.

An agricultural data collection framework is provided in a system and method for tracking and managing livestock, and for analyzing animal conditions such as health, growth, nutrition, and behavior. The framework uses ultra-high frequency interrogation of RFID tags to collect individual animal data across multiple geographical locations, and incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to develop machine learning base models for statistical process controls around each animal for evaluating the animal condition. The framework provides a determination of normality at an individual animal basis or for a specific location, and generates alerts, predictions, and a targeted processing or application schedule for prioritizing and delivering resources when intervention is needed.

The invention provides a kit for detecting a peste des petits ruminants virus hemagglutinin protein (H protein) antibody. The kit takes recombinant protein of extracellular region sequence code of peste des petits ruminants virus hemagglutinin protein gene as an envelope antigen. The invention further provides an application method of the kit. The kit can quickly specifically detect the peste des petits ruminants virus H protein antibody in serum, and is good in reaction specificity and high in sensitivity. The operation is simple; the cost is low; and the reaction result is stable and reliable, and is easy to observe. The kit is suitable for monitoring the vaccine immunity effect of import and export immunity, food sanitation, and a livestock farm of peste des petits ruminants.

The invention discloses a resource utilization and comprehensive treatment process for sewage and manure generated during cultivation. The process comprises the following steps: collecting sewage and manure as basic raw materials; delivering the basic raw materials into a fermentation apparatus for manure fermentation; and sending a product of manure fermentation to a feeding farm for feeding of earthworms and collecting the earthworms and earthworm manure; wherein manure fermentation comprises manure inactivation and fermentation cultivation, manure inactivation and fermentation cultivation are continuously carried out in the same fermentation apparatus, and the fermentation apparatus realizes overturning and stirring of the manure generated during cultivation in the processes of manure inactivation and fermentation cultivation and discharging of the manure after completion of fermentation cultivation through rotation of the fermentation apparatus. The process provided by the invention has the advantages of simple steps, strong operability, a high resource utilization rate, a small land occupation area, a short period of consumed time, a wide application scope, good economic benefits, greenness, environment friendliness and the like.

Systems and methods are described that provide a fast and simple way of administering a drug program related to livestock. Specifically, accurate, automated livestock-to-carcass, meat product, or organ identification systems are provided that can receive, compile and analyze information regarding the condition of a carcass, meat product, or organ in a form that is readily readable, transferable to others, and associated with, or linked to, other information such as the feedlot, lot and / or animal of origin as well as the presence or absence of an administered drug, combination of drugs, or drug program.

The invention discloses a microbial agent for producing nonantigenic soybean meal and a preparation method thereof and belongs to the technical field of microorganism application. The microbial agent uses Bacillus subtilis strain WB117, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Meyenex Hansen strain WY238 and Lactobacillus sp. strain L1 as strains. The strains are prepared into single-strain microbial agents respectively through inoculation, fermentation and culture; and the single-strain microbial agents are blended according a weight ratio of 1-3:1-3:1-3 to form a composite microbial agent. The microbial agent ferments a soybean meal raw material so as to remove antigenic substance and anti-nutritional factors, reduce the toxic action of the soybean meal on livestock, promote digestion and absorption, and improve percentage of the soybean meal in feed and the nutritional value of the soybean meal. The microbial agent and the method can be popularized among and used in feed additive enterprises and livestock farms or peasant households.

The invention relates to a livestock farm sterilization device used for stock farming. The livestock farm sterilization device is novel in structure and high in working efficiency; and operation is simple. The livestock farm sterilization device comprises a base plate, a left support, a first sliding rail, first sliding blocks, a first toothed bar, a second toothed bar, a bearing pedestal, first supporting rods, a first toothed wheel, a rotating shaft, annular sliding rails, a connection plate, second sliding blocks, and a second supporting rod; the right side of the top part of the base plate is symmetrically provided with the first supporting rods ; and the top end of each first supporting rod is provided with one of the annular sliding rails. The structure is novel; operation is simple; working efficiency is high; the livestock farm sterilization device can be used for spraying sanitizers uniformly in livestock farms, high efficiency sterilization is realized, and a travel switch is capable of simplifying device operation.

The invention provides a preparation method of a forage for an India blue peafowl, consisting of corn powder, Chinese cabbage leaf powder, bean leaf powder, pine needle powder, potato powder, trash fish powder, bean cake powder, towel gourd powder, bamboo leaf powder, liquorice powder, giantworm powder, bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae powder, angelica sinensis powder and honeysuckle powder, wherein the percentage is weight percentage. The forage is low in cost, easy for burdening, simple in prescription and preparation method, and good in breeding effect. The bred Thailand peafowl is shining in hair color, bright-colored in hair color, large in size, healthy in body, and low in morbidity. The defects that the peafowl is gloomy and lackluster in hair color, slow in growth and development, small in size, light in weight, loosened in hairs, less in activity level, and easy to infect the flu, vomit, dehydrate, suffer from the diarrhea and suffer from the enteropatia since the India blue peafowl is lack of nutrition caused by unreasonable feeding and matching in some breeding households and large-size breeding grounds can be effectively overcome.

The invention relates to the biotechnology field, in particular to an RT-LAMP kit for detecting peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV). The kit comprises a detecting system composed of LAMP reaction liquid of four LAMP primers. The kit can quickly and sensitively detect PPRV, has simple operation, low cost, easy observation of reaction results and favourable specificity, is suitable for export quarantine, food sanitation and on-site detection of livestock feedlots, and is easy for popularizing and applying in large range.

The invention discloses total mixed ration (TMR) for feedlot meat sheep and a preparation method of the total mixed ration. The TMR comprises TMR during the weaning period of 1-2-month-old sheep and TMR during the fattening period from 2-month-old sheep to marketing. A formula of the TMR during the weaning period needs to adapt to the situation that the rumen of a lamb during the weaning period does not develop yet, a nutritional mode of a monogastric animal is used, a concentrate-roughage formula with the rumination characteristics for promoting the rumen development is supplemented, and probiotics are added; a formula of the TMR during the fattening period needs to adapt to the increasingly complicated growth and development situations of the meat sheep, a proper concentrate-roughage ratio is used, the TMR can provide energy and can meet required protein, and the roughage is added to keep the normal activity of the rumen. The preparation method adopts a feed expanding and granulating process for preparing the comprehensive nutritional TMR suitable for the digestive physiological characteristics of the meat sheep.

The invention discloses a method for preparing drug residue free feed for feeding live pigs. The method comprises the steps of: preparing 1 part of bacterial strain, 0.1 part of lower polyxylose and 0.2 part of daidzein by mass, adding 10 parts of water, stirring for 30-45 minutes, and preserving the water temperature at 20-35 DEG C; preparing 100 parts of feed and 20 parts of corn steep liquor by mass and adding into a cone type stirrer together, loading into a plastic bag with a reducing valve after stirring to be uniform, stacking at a warehouse for fermentation, unpacking the plastic bag after 72 hours, pouring out, drying, and packaging. In the invention, the raw materials need no strict sterilization and can be directly inoculated and cultured, inhalation consumption is very low without exceeding 1.0 percent generally, the heat radiated during fermentation is lower, the operation is easy to control, the production process is simplified, the production cost is reduced, the equipment investment is low, a feed factory can be used for carrying out granulation production without increased cost on a feeding farm, thereby being easy to popularize.

An animal is provided with an identifier for uniquely identifying it. The identifier is entered into a microprocessor-controlled programmable device to start a record for the animal and to record and store information pertaining to the animal into the record. After the recording and storing of information, an electronic unit is activated to indicate to an animal handler a next task to be performed related to the animal. The data may be entered by speech commands and voice recognition software, so that the user can avoid coming into close proximity to the animal. Further, the contents of the record can be processed to provide information to those along the chain from the producers to the feedlots, packing plant and wholesalers / retailers that will assist in the production of a better product.