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382 results about "Herd" patented technology

A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic. The form of collective animal behavior associated with this is referred to as herding. The term herd is generally applied to mammals, and most particularly to the grazing ungulates that classically display this behaviour. Different terms are used for similar groupings in other species; in the case of birds, for example, the word is flocking, but flock may also be used, in certain instances, for mammals, particularly sheep or goats. Large groups of carnivores are usually called packs, and in nature a herd is classically subject to predation from pack hunters.

Method and apparatus for data logging of physiological and environmental variables for domestic and feral animals

A GPS data acquisition collar incorporating an individualized rugged watertight collar that monitors factors including GPS location, gazing patterns, elevation, feeding patterns, temperature, movement speed, sleep patterns and signaling or beacon tracking options. Additionally the present invention provides options for visual representation or programming alerting of factors that may affect an animal or herd of animals in a monitored and recorded environment.
Owner:KEDZIORA JOHN

Systematic mining of associated server herds for uncovering malware and attack campaigns

A method for detecting malicious servers. The method includes analyzing network traffic data to generate a main similarity measure and a secondary similarity measure for each server pair found in the network traffic data, extracting a main subset and a secondary subset of servers based on the main similarity measure and the secondary similarity measure, identifying a server that belongs to the main subset and the secondary subset, and determining a suspicious score of the server based on at least a first similarity density measure of the main subset, a second similarity density measure of the secondary subset, and a commonality measure of the main subset and the secondary subset.
Owner:THE BOEING CO

Methods of treating pigs with bacillus strains

Disclosed are methods of administering at least two Bacillus strains to a pig, such as female breeding stock, nursery pigs, or other pigs. The Bacillus strains inhibit Clostridium in litters borne to the pig. The Bacillus strains also are useful when administered to herds lacking symptoms of Clostridium infection. Administration of the Bacillus strains improves performance of female breeding stock and in piglets borne by the female breeding stock.
Owner:DUPONT NUTRITION BIOSCIENCES APS

Cattle monitoring for illness

Disclosed are a system, device and process for monitoring physical and physiological features of livestock through a unique monitoring system and device. Basic and Smart tags are placed on livestock to monitor, among other things, temperature, movement, location, posture, pulse rate, and other physical and physiological features. Information is relayed from Basic tags, in one embodiment, to Smart tags that requests the information and receives the information from the basic tags. Smart tags send information to a mobile unit controller and / or home base so that requested information is sent to an end user that monitors the livestock for signs of illness. Potentially ill animals are segregated from the herd for further evaluation and minimization of exposure risk to the rest of the herd. This early detection system saves livestock and ensures a healthier herd for livestock farmers.
Owner:MEDISIM

Automatic sow raising method and system in herd

The invention discloses a method and a system for automatically raising sows in groups. The invention comprises a sow group raising system based on computer networking technology, wherein the inside of the sow group raising system is provided with a remote central management computer storing ID coded information, physiological data, feeding formulas, feeding control modes of the raised sows and adata statistics database, as well as a management and control workstation arranged according to group raising scale; and the management and control workstation is provided with a plurality of feedingstations, boar stations, resting areas and isolation areas. When a sow carrying a radio frequency ear plate enters a feeding station, a radio frequency information acquisition device in the feeding station immediately sends ID information of the sow entering the feeding station to the remote central management computer, and then the remote central management computer sends a control instruction to make the sow complete the feeding according to programs of the system and leave the feeding station for a resting area or an isolation area. The method and the system can carry out scientific management on the group-housed sows to ensure the optimum body conditions of the sows, reduction of feeder waste, distribution according to need, and good group consistency.
Owner:广东广兴牧业机械设备有限公司

Methods of treating pigs with Bacillus strains

Disclosed are methods of administering at least two Bacillus strains to a pig, such as female breeding stock, nursery pigs, or other pigs. The Bacillus strains inhibit Clostridium in litters borne to the pig. The Bacillus strains also are useful when administered to herds lacking symptoms of Clostridium infection. Administration of the Bacillus strains improves performance of female breeding stock and in piglets borne by the female breeding stock.
Owner:DUPONT NUTRITION BIOSCIENCES APS

Livestock breeding and management system

A method and system for livestock breeding and management for use with a herd where each female animal carries a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The system comprises a herd management system and one or more breeding activity monitors to be carried by each male animal. Each breeding activity monitor is adapted to detect when the male animal is mounting a female animal based on the body position of the male animal, read identification data from the RFID tag carried by the mounted female animal, and generate breeding activity data including the identification data of the mounted female animal, mounting male animal and timing data for each mounting for output to the herd management system. The herd management system is adapted to process breeding activity data output from the breeding activity monitors to generate herd management data.
Owner:BREEDCARE

Efficient full-day cubed feed for barn feeding cattle and production method thereof

InactiveCN101385514AAvoid investmentAvoid production performance anomaliesFood processingAnimal feeding stuffDiseaseSodium Bentonite
The present invention relates to a yard feeding cattle efficient total ration blocky feed and a production method thereof. The yard feeding cattle efficient total ration blocky feed consists of 37 percent to 60 percent of crushed or cut forage grass, 38 percent to 60 percent of yard feeding cattle concentrate complemental feed and 2 percent to 3 percent of bentonite which are mixed in a mixer, the water content of a product is controlled within 14 percent, and finally, the prepared raw material is pressed and molded in a ring die waferer. The present invention leads total mixed ration (TMR) to be blocks, compared with the TMR in bulk, the present invention has the advantages that the present invention has stable feed quality, reduces the forage grass waste in the process of feeding and the labor intensity, improves the labor ration and can be fit for large scale industrialized production; the present invention improves the grain ration palatability obviously, effectively prevents the flocks and herds from being fussy, improves the dry matter feed intake and the weight grain of the ruminant and reduces the feed cost to save the feed grains; the present invention has balanced nutrition, thereby being good for improving the feed utilization rate and reducing the occurrence of various kinds of stress diseases of animals; the present invention is convenient for being stored and transported, etc.
Owner:李爱华

System for optimizing the production performance of a milk producing animal herd

A system for optimising the production performance of a milk producing animal herd is provided. The system comprises a milk sampling apparatus, an analytical apparatus comprising separate equipment for analyzing compounds or parameters that in the presence of compounds indicative of the physiological or nutritional condition of the herd member, generates detectable signals, and apparatus directing a part of the milk sample (directing apparatus) to each separate equipment, which is controlled by data for the physiological and nutritional state of a herd member, so that the directing apparatus is only activated at pre-selected points in time or at pre-selected time intervals in the production and / or lactation cycles. Specific compounds are compounds indicative of mastitis, including beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase (NAGase) E.C. 3.2.1.52 and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), protein balance, including milk urea nitrogen (MUN) and total protein, ketosis, including acetolactate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, acetone and lipids, fat and state in reproduction cycle, including a steroid or peptide hormone, e.g., progesterone. Furthermore, the system comprises equipment for signal detection to record and process the signals, equipment to store data and equipment to produce data output. Methods for optimizing the production performance of a milk producing animal herd and an apparatus therefor.
Owner:LATTEC

Animal origin free flocks and herds frozen semen diluent and production method of flocks and herds frozen semen

InactiveCN101310729AReduce wasteEliminate the potential risk of spreading various diseasesMammal material medical ingredientsDead animal preservationAdditive ingredientSemen
A cattle and sheep non-animal-derived frozen semen diluent comprises at least one or the combination of the following ingredients: trehalose, propylene glycol, soybean lecithin, soluble soybean protein, nitrogen-trishydroxymethyl aminoethanesulfonic acid and dodecanoyl sodium sulfate. A production method of a cattle and sheet frozen semen by using the cattle and sheep non-animal-derived frozen semen diluent fully mixes the cattle or sheet semen and the dilutent, lowers the temperature and carries out the preservation. Compared with the prior art, the animal semen dilutent of the invention eliminates the animal-derived ingredients; the preservation method is more practical, the technical effects are better, thus thoroughly eliminating the potential risks of spreading various epidemic diseases between the animals and the people by the animal-derived ingredients in the dilutent. The cattle and sheep non-animal-derived frozen semen diluent can promote the popularization of animal artificial insemination technology to the utmost extent and improve the labor productivity and the economic benefits, thus having great economic and social values.
Owner:辽宁省重大动物疫病应急中心 +1

Arrangement for managing a herd of freely walking animals

An arrangement for managing a herd of freely walking animals includes an area (1) for receiving the animals, a milking station (2) and a plurality of waiting station (3) leading from the receiving area (1) to at least the milking station (2). The waiting station (3) is arranged to receive one animal and comprises one identification device (7) for identifying the animal entering the waiting station (3). The arrangement comprises a memory device (8) arranged to provide a value of a parameter related to the milk production of an animal identified by the identification device (7) and present in the waiting station (3) and by an analyzer (9) for analyzing the parameter and determining if the animal is to be milked in response to the value.
Owner:DELAVAL HLDG AB

Frozen semen diluent formula for flocks and herds as well as making method

The invention provides a frozen semen diluent formula for flocks and herds, and the formula of each 100mL of diluent comprises the following components: 1.35-1.55g of citric acid, 2.4-2.6g of trihydroxymethyl aminomethane (tris), 1.0-1.2g of glucose, 4.5-6.8ml of glycerol, 18.0-21ml of yolk, 4.5-7.5ml of bovine serum albumin (BSA), 0.45-0.75ml of vitamin B12, 50000-100000IU of benzylpenicillin potassium, 50000-100000IU of streptomycin sulfate and the balance of distilled water. The formula provided by the invention is low in cost, simple and convenient in preparation and using and operation steps, capable of effectively improving the sperm motility, the acrosome integrity rate and the plasmalemma integrity rate, and capable of reducing the sperm aberration rate.
Owner:尹旭升

Systems and methods for improving efficiencies in livestock production

The present invention is directed to methods and systems for improving the efficiency of livestock production using genetic information obtained from the animal. The methods of the invention comprise obtaining a genetic sample from an animal or embryo, determining the genotype of the animal or embryo with respect to specific quality traits, grouping animals with like genotypes, and optionally, further sub-grouping animals based on like phenotypes. Based on the genotype, an animal is treated in a particular way. For example, uniform feeding regimens are designed for a particular group so as to maximize feed efficiencies and accurately predict slaughter times among like animals possessing a desired quality trait. Such methods include obtaining and maintaining the genetic data obtained from each animal, and optionally other data relating to the animal's health, condition or parentage, or to its herd, and providing this data to others through systems that are web-based, contained in a database, or attached to the animal itself such as by an implanted microchip.
Owner:MERIAL LTD

Feed for herd boars

Feed for herd boars comprises the following ingredients in percentage by weight: 62 of corns, 20 of 46% soya bean meal, 10 of wheat bran, 2 of beer yeast powder, 2 of Peruvian steamed fishmeal, 1 of calcium hydrophosphate, 0.7 of mountain meal, 0.32 of salt, 1.2 of core materials special for herd boars, 0.2 of baking soda, 0.12 of choline, 0.01 of ethoxy quinoline, 0.40 of smectite and 0.05 of propionic acid type mildewproof agent. The feed has good palatability and low feeding cost, ensures the survival rates of the semen of the herd boars to be higher than 99.8% and ensures good vigor and little dead and weak semen.
Owner:ZUNYI JINDING AGRI TECH

Cattle and other veterinary monitoring

Disclosed are a system, device and process for monitoring physical and physiological features of livestock through a unique monitoring system method and device. Basic and Smart tags are placed on livestock to monitor, among other things, temperature, movement, location, posture, pulse rate, and other physical and physiological features. Information is relayed from Basic tags, in one embodiment, to Smart tags that requests the information and receives the information from the basic tags. Smart tags send information to a mobile unit controller and / or home base so that requested information is sent to an end user that monitors the livestock for signs of illness. Potentially ill animals are segregated from the herd for further evaluation and minimization of exposure risk to the rest of the herd. This early detection system saves livestock and ensures a healthier herd for livestock farmers.
Owner:MEDISIM

Marker assisted best linear unbiased prediction (ma-blup): software adaptions for large breeding populations in farm animal species

The invention provides methodologies for improved molecular genetic analysis of individual animals and animal populations. The invention includes methods and systems for identifying those animals in a population that are most likely to heritably pass on desirable traits. Provided are means for evaluating the estimated breeding values and increasing the average genetic merit for animals in a population. For each trait, the instant invention provides methods for evaluating the relative effect of one or more quantitative trait loci (QTL) and three or more molecular genetic markers for each QTL The relationship between these various markers and the pre-selected trait and QTL is calculated, along with the contribution of other factors such as pedigree and known measures with respect to quantitative trait, and these data are used to calculate estimated breeding values for the animals in the herd and to rank the animals according to these estimated breeding values.
Owner:SCIDERA

Alfalfa dehydration silage harvesting technology and harvester

The invention discloses an alfalfa dehydration silage harvesting technology and a harvester, and belongs to stockbreeding machines. Through the harvesting technology and the harvester, the field airing is not required, weather influence is avoided, the harvesting is performed at the best cradling period of alfalfa, multiple operation links of harvesting, dehydrating, cutting up, compacting and bagging and the like are finished at a time, the operation processes are reduced, the harvesting time is shortened, the investment cost on the machine is lowered, and the labor force is saved; and meanwhile, prepared silage alfalfa is small in package and is convenient to carry, and the commercialized production is easy to realize. Squeezed juice can directly flow into the field as liquid fertilizer or can be collected to feed flocks and herds, poultry and the like.
Owner:CHINA AGRI UNIV

A dry stick device and a method for determining an analyte in a sample

A novel and improved dry stick construction for the determination of an analyte in a sample is provided. The dry stick device comprises: (i) a solid support comprising a cavity, and (ii) at least one dry reagent capable of reacting with the analyte, a derivative of said analyte or an indicator compound for said analyte to provide a detectable signal when in a moistened state, wherein the cavity comprises the at least one dry reagent. The present invention also provides an automated or semi-automated system. Additionally the present invention provides an automated or semi-automated system for optimising the production performance of a milk producing animal herd.
Owner:LATTEC

Vital signs monitoring system for animals

A self powered monitoring device for monitoring an animal's temperature and other vital signs. The device may be mounted in the animal's ear, under the animals skin, or in any location which can be used to generate a reliable indication of the animals temperature and other vital signs. The temperature probe for the device is inserted subcutaneously and thermally and / or electrically connected to the housing of the device. Power for the device is provided by a miniature array of solar cells, the power from the solar cells being used to drive digital circuitry which processes signals from the various probes used to gather data concerning the animal's vital signs. The size of the array is chosen to be commensurate with the number of vital signs monitored, with the amount of sunlight, density of herd, and other factors being considered to ensure sufficient power for the device.
Owner:HIXSON TOM

Portable Large Animal Trap and Method

A large animal trap (especially for wild hogs) that is easily moved by a single individual and takes only ten minutes to unload and set up and walk away. It is approximately 7½′ diameter across the center allowing a trapper to potentially catch a whole herd at once, but overall it is still light enough for a single individual to pick up and roll anywhere owing to its approximately circular drum shape. Overall, the trap includes 750+ welds making the trap exceedingly strong for its weight and size. The trap further includes triple offset walls to help keep all trapped animals in. In use, the trap is firmly secured to the ground by a chain and allows nothing to get out except turkeys which can fly out the escape hole in the top. It is easy, fast and fun to set the trap. A user only needs to tie the rope on the door and set the pins to engage the ground and suspend the door in the open position using the rope. A user then pours corn in and waits until the hogs come into the trap. When the wild hogs or other large animals in the trap root up the pins in the ground, the door drops and locks shut and you keep everything that came into the trap. Nothing gets out unless it flies. It is a fully assembled trap with no assembly required post purchase.
Owner:KELLEY HARRY R

Bovine CASTgene SNP and meat tenderness

The present invention relates to the identification of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within the bovine CAST locus encoding the calpastatin protein, wherein the allelic variation of the SNP is a G / C transversion associated with post-mortem muscle tenderness. The invention further relates to oligonucleotides useful in identifying the genotype of bovines as it relates to the CAST locus polymorphic site. The invention also encompasses computer-assisted methods and systems for improving the production efficiency for livestock having marketably tender meat using multiple data, and in particular the genotype of the animals as it relates to the CAST SNP. These methods of the invention encompass obtaining a genetic sample from each animal in a herd of livestock, determining the genotype of each animal with respect to specific quality traits as defined by a panel of at least two single polynucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), one SNP corresponding to a site between exons 5 and 6 of the bovine CAST locus, grouping animals with like genotypes, and optionally, further sub-grouping animals based on like phenotypes.
Owner:UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Livestock cooling system

A livestock cooling system creates an environment for protecting the health and productivity of animals, particularly dairy cows. One or more cooling fans are connected to programmable oscillation means, enabling the herds man to program fan oscillation according to the location of the livestock. Water is injected under high pressure into the air stream of the fans to create a fog. The system is also programmable according to various environmental conditions, including temperature, humidity, and wind velocity. The pressure and volume of the injected water are programmable and may be adjusted by the controller according to the observed environmental conditions. The disclosed system provides a cool and healthy environment for livestock, where the environment is programmed to track the animals according to the time of day, location of the animals and the location of shade.
Owner:KOOLSYNK L L C

Apparatus and method for detecting disease in dairy animals

Disclosed is apparatus and a method for detecting udder disease in dairy animals. An accelerometer is attached to each of a plurality of dairy animals. A processor determines a measure of the activity of the dairy animals to which the accelerometers are attached. Data is recorded by and automatically transmitted from a sensor unit secured to an animal, without the requirement for costly and time consuming chemical analysis of milk, or of visual or veterinary inspection of individual animals in a herd. The development of an udder disease in a dairy animal, such as mastitis, may be identified from a decrease in the monitored measure of activity of a dairy animal. A separate baseline measure of activity may be determined for each dairy animal and the ac tivity of a plurality of dairy animals in one or more herds may be taken into account, in order to reduce false positives due to external effects which are not specific to a single dairy animal.
Owner:ICEROBOTICS

Polymorphisms in mitochondrial transcription factor A ("TFAM") gene and their associations with measures of marbling and subcutaneous fat depth in beef cattle

The physiological regulation of intake, growth and energy partitioning in animals is under the control of multiple genes, which may be important candidates for unraveling the genetic variation in economically relevant traits in beef production. The present invention relates to the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the bovine gene encoding mitochondrial transcription factor A (“TFAM”) and their associations with economically relevant traits in beef production. The invention further encompasses methods and systems, including network-based processes, to manage the SNP data and other data relating to specific animals and herds of animals, veterinarian care, diagnostic and quality control data and management of livestock which, based on genotyping, have predictable meat quality traits, husbandry conditions, animal welfare, food safety information, audit of existing processes and data from field locations.
Owner:WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

Bitter buckwheat health care beverage with auxiliary function for lowering blood pressure and production process thereof

The invention relates to a bitter buckwheat health care beverage with an auxiliary function for lowering blood pressure and a production process thereof. In the invention, the traditional Chinese medical science theory and the modern science theory are combined, natural traditional Chinese medicinal herd such as bitter buckwheat is taken as the main raw material, and the health care beverage withthe auxiliary function for lowering blood pressure is prepared. The raw material adopted in the invention is common food raw material and medicine and food homologous raw material, the product provided by the invention is safe, efficient, non-toxic and applicable to being drunk for a long time. After the beverage is drunk for a long time, the blood pressure can be effectively lowered, and the immunity of the organism can be improved. The formula of the beverage is scientific, the technology is advanced, the process is simple and convenient, and standardized, normalized and industrialized production is easy to realize.
Owner:山西悦卜林创业投资有限公司

Free-ranging beef cattle positioning and early warning system

The invention discloses a free-ranging beef cattle positioning and early warning system which comprises a positioning module, an acceleration sensor and an analysis processing module. The positioning module is arranged on beef cattle and used for collecting position information of the beef cattle; the acceleration sensor is arranged on the beef cattle and used for collecting motion direction information of the beef cattle; the analysis processing module is used for receiving the position information of the beef cattle from the positioning module and the motion direction information of the beef cattle from the acceleration sensor; according to the received information, hot spot paths and feeding regions are acquired through calculation and an early warning is given according to the hot spot paths and the feeding regions. According to the system, the existing single-livestock single-spot monitoring processing capacity is improved to the monitoring processing capacity for a whole pasturing area, multiple pastures and various livestock herds, the function that only behaviors are monitored in the prior art is improved to the function that the early warning is given for abnormality and the behaviors are predicted, a feeder can rapidly and accurately find the lost beef cattle in the field and can find and check the epidemic situation of the beef cattle in time, and loss is reduced.
Owner:CHINA AGRI UNIV
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