5084results about "Bird housings" patented technology

Systems, methods, and computer code products for monitoring the behavior, health, and/or characteristics of an animal are disclosed herein. In one implementation, the animal is positioned inside a waste container placed on a system that is adapted to determine, record and communicate over a network various animal health parameters. These parameters can be processed to determine trends, statistics and changes of animal physiological functions. The results can be used to access animal health conditions and issue warnings, alarms, messages, and other notifications to designated caretakers. These notifications may be displayed using various means such as computers and/or mobile devices. Data retrieval and review capability can provide improved understanding of an animal's health conditions and facilitate early illness detection.

The present invention has objectives of providing a low-cost, easy-to-handle individual isolation animal breeding unit and a system for using the same, significantly reducing costs of facilities and maintenance for animal experiments and saving on labor, and providing a new animal transportation form (breeding cage having a transportation function). For achieving the objectives, the present invention provides a system for maintaining an animal breeding environment, comprising A) an animal breeding unit capable of comprising an internal tray having a sufficient space for breeding an animal of interest, comprising an external tray capable of accommodating the internal tray, and capable of keeping a predetermined cleanliness degree; B) means for providing the internal tray having the predetermined cleanliness degree; C) an internal tray exchange unit capable of accommodating the animal breeding unit and exchanging the internal tray while keeping the predetermined cleanliness degree; and D) means for recovering the exchanged internal tray.

Various apparatus and associated methods involve a light source that provides light at wavelengths that substantially correlate to local maxima in the spectral sensitivity of a diurnal avian. In an illustrative example, the light source may output light primarily in wavelength bands that are not substantially absorbed by colored oil droplets and/or visual pigment in at least one type of cone in the eye of a diurnal avian. In some embodiments, the light source may include a light-emitting diode (LED) light source. Exemplary light sources may output spectral components to illuminate diurnal avians with local maxima of intensity at wavelengths that substantially correspond to local maxima in a spectral sensitivity visual response characteristic of the diurnal avians.

A collapsible feeder for birds, squirrels and the like comprising a plastic feeder body having a base and rim at the lower end thereof and a cover selectively closing the upper end thereof. The feeder body has a plurality of collapsible corrugations defining annular members that allow the body to extend and contract into extended and collapsed positions. The lower end of the feeder body is provided with feed outlets to enable feed within the feeder body to pass outwardly therethrough onto the base inwardly of the rim. The feeder body may also have a plurality of small openings or feeding stations formed in the corrugations to enable birds or the like to gain access to the feed within the feeder body. Preferably, the feeder body defines an inverted frusto-conical shape, but may have a frusto-conical shape as well as other shapes.

A housing has a front wall and a door, a rear wall, a pair of side walls each with a window, a bottom wall with a bottom recess with a lower hinged door, a top wall with a top aperture with an upper hinged door with a plurality of ventilation apertures, a water bottle, and a food receptacle. The housing receives animal litter on the bottom wall. Wheels are coupled to the bottom wall. A removable transportation rod is snap coupled with pivoting capabilities.

A pet carrier (20) includes a cage like enclosure (22) having a top (24), a bottom (26), a front end (28), and an opposite rear end (30). Two spaced wheels (32) are connected to the cage like enclosure at the bottom rear end so that when the front end is lifted off of a support surface (500), the pet carrier can be rolled. A handle (34) is pivotally connected to the cage like enclosure at the top near the front end. The handle is selectively lockable in a plurality of angular positions allowing the height of the handle to be adjusted to accommodate users of different heights.

An IVF system for successfully utilizing spermatozoa separated into X-chromosome bearing and into Y-chromosome bearing population for insemination. The IVF system includes fertilization medium that can shorten the time from insemination to cleavage and a portable incubator for the transportation of maturing oocytes and inseminated oocytes comrprising a straw (19) and an incubation element (20) that can be sealed with a cap (22).

A pet enclosure having a moisture and odor-resistant, plastic, rattan-like material woven onto a frame. The enclosure is foldably collapsible for compact storage and shipping, and is quickly and easily assembled with minimal or no tools. An elevated floor panel is securely but removably engaged to the framing of the enclosure. An access door pivots inwardly and outwardly, and can be latched in a closed position or an open position.

A combination-type pet cage is constructed as follows. Two lateral panels are assembled to a base by inserting flanges and screw rod sections extended from lower ends of the lateral panels into corresponding slots and holes of the base. Then, a front panel and a rear panel are attached to the lateral panels by fitting receiving portions of the front and rear panels onto projections formed at front ends and rear ends of the lateral panels, so that flanges and screw rod sections extended from lower ends of the front and rear panels pass through corresponding slots and holes of the base. The lateral, front, and rear panels are secured in position to the base by wing nuts. Finally, a top panel is secured in position to upper ends of the lateral, front, and rear panels. Plural such pet cages are connectable and easily securable in position to one another.

The invention provides a padding capable of being used for fermentation bed cultivation and a production method thereof. The padding comprises a compound microbial preparation, main materials (such as wood dust, rice hull, straw, cotton stalk, peanut shell, and the like), rapid fermentation raw materials (raw materials used for adjusting and diluting micro-bacteria, such as corn flour, fresh rice bran, brown sugar or molasses and the like) and water, and then, the padding is prepared by fermentation. Aiming at the abnormal problems of low strain fermenting strength, slow temperature rise, no fermentation and the like which usually occur in the current padding manufacture, the problems of limited padding components, high production cost and unable full utilization of wide subsidiary agricultural products of China, and the problems of single padding laying mode, complex manufacture and unable consideration of demands of different producers, the invention provides a practical, cheap, rapid and safe padding production method for the fermentation bed cultivation technology.

The invention provides a systematic agricultural production system, in which materials and energy are designed to be circular. The system comprises a solid breeding area, a solid planting area and a biological pest control area. The whole planting and breeding production adopts a solid industrial modular production mode; energy needed for supplementing the temperature and solid light source of the planting area and the breeding area is provided by a biomass energy generation system and an energy supplementary system consisting of solar and wind energy. Leftover bits of the planting area are transformed into feed used in the breeding area after being treated and leftover bits of the breeding area are produced into biological mediums which are supplied to the planting area after being go through the microbial action. Carbon dioxide and oxygen generated between the breeding area and the planting area are recycled mutually and the temperature and the humidity conditions of the breeding area and the planting area are transformed mutually. The system of the invention can carry out effective combination and the reforger of an industrial chain for traditional agriculture, marine agriculture, microorganism and lower living things.

PCT No. PCT/US97/06725 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 10, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 10, 1998 PCT Filed Apr. 21, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/44314 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 27, 1997The instant invention is new compounds of Formula I their use as cerebrovascular agents in diseases such as stroke, peripheral vascular disease, restenosis, and as agents for regulating plasma cholesterol concentrations, for treating hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis, and for lowering the serum or plasma level of Lp(a). A pharmaceutical composition is also claimed.

Unmanned vehicle to carry out an animal-related action, provided with a frame and a control device to control the vehicle and a locomotion device to move the unmanned vehicle, and with a protective device to protect the vehicle against obstacles, wherein the protective device includes a touchable electrical conductor which extends on the outside of, advantageously around, the vehicle, and a voltage source to supply voltage to the conductor under the control of the control device.

The invention provides self-disinfection chicken cage culture equipment. The self-disinfection chicken cage culture equipment comprises a frame, a cage and an egg conveying belt. A limiting plate is fixed to the upper portion of a front panel of the cage, the limiting plate is connected with an upper side plate in a sliding mode, hydraulic rods are fixed to the upper portion of a rear side plate, movable frames are fixed to the output ends of the hydraulic rods and fixedly connected with the limiting plate, a liquid inflow pipe is arranged on the upper portions of the side plates, and a medicine kettle is connected to the liquid inflow pipe in a threaded mode. Disinfection medicine is contained in the medicine kettle and comprises 60-90 g of folium artemisiae argyi, 60-90 g of sanguisorba officinalis, 60-90 g of gentiana scabra, 30-50 g of Rhizoma Ligustici, 30-50 g of cimicifugae foetidae, 30-50 g of cortex phellodendri, 30-50 g of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 30-50 g of curcuma zedoary, 30-50 g of radix sophorae flavescentis, 15-30 g of tripterygium glycosides, 15-30 g of Chinese azalea flowers, 15-30 g of calamine, 15-30 g of tenuifolia, 15-30 g of aloes, 15-30 g of ash bark, 15-30 g of radix scrophulariae, 10-20 g of chrysanthemums, 15 g of hydrargyrum oxydatum crudum and 15 g of peracetic acid. The self-disinfection chicken cage culture equipment is simple in structure, convenient to use and good in chicken output effect, the bodies of the chickens and the emptied cage are synchronously disinfected in the chicken output process, and the pathogenic bacterium contamination probability is reduced.

A multi-tier feeder which is comprised of a plurality of mesh feeder bodies stacked one upon the other in a collapsible fashion and which include even feed baffle plates positioned therein in a vertically spaced-apart relationship.

A portable livestock incubating device is provided formed of a rectangular container having and incubating volume forming an incubating chamber defined by the zone within the incubating volume. Each each end wall further includes an access door hingedly attached to an upper portion above a clean out door for providing ingress and egress of livestock. Each access door has an exhaust vent located at an upper portion whereby heated air, generated via an electric heater within said the incubating chamber exhausts therethrough. A base with wheels mounted thereon for facilitating transportation of the portable livestock incubating device.

A combinative pet cage comprises a front meshed board, a rear meshed board, a left meshed board, a right meshed board, a top meshed board, a bottom meshed board, a plurality of screw parts, and a plurality of connecting parts. The frame of each of the meshed boards is provided with screw holes for the insertion of the screw parts, whereby the meshed boards will be assembles to form a cage body. The top and bottom faces of the frames of the front meshed board and the rear meshed board are further provided with a plurality of insertion holes, whereby two such combinative pet cages can be connected vertically by the connecting parts. A plurality of pet cages can be connected in the same way, and the combined structure thereby formed will be stable.

The present invention concerns a method for in vivo generation of a linear polynucleotide with 5′ and 3′ free ends from a vector having no free end, said linear polynucleotide being integrated into the host cell genome. The vector having no free end according to the present invention comprise the polynucleotide to be linearized or excised flanked by a cleavage site, said cleavage site being preferably not found in the host cell genome. The present invention also relates to the resulting cells and their uses, for example for production of proteins or other genes, biomolecules, biomaterials, transgenic plants, vaccines, transgenic animals or for treatment or prophylaxis of a condition or disorder in an individual.