745 results about "Animal breeding" patented technology

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.

Disclosed is a cage for breeding laboratory animals. The laboratory animal breeding cage can detachably couple a lid to a body of the cage in a simple manner. Further, by virtue of a double filter mounted in the lid, the laboratory animals can be bred under both positive and negative pressure. Furthermore, by virtue of a double safety valve, the inside and the outside of the cage can be doubly air-blocked. The cage can be conveniently washed an managed, the cause of failure is eliminated and a life span of the cage is lengthened, and the efficiency in breeding and controlling the laboratory animals are enhanced.

The present invention is in the field of nucleic acid-based genetic analysis. More particularly, it discloses novel insights into the overall structure of genetic variation in all living species. The structure can be revealed with the use of any data set of genetic variants from a particular locus. The invention is useful to define the subset of variations that are most suited as genetic markers to search for correlations with certain phenotypic traits. Additionally, the insights are useful for the development of algorithms and computer programs that convert genotype data into the constituent haplotypes that are laborious and costly to derive in an experimental way. The invention is useful in areas such as (i) genome-wide association studies, (ii) clinical in vitro diagnosis, (iii) plant and animal breeding, (iv) the identification of micro-organisms.

The invention relates to a method and system used for real time positioning and identification of abnormal sound in animal breeding shed. The method includes acquiring real time sound data; detectingwhether animal abnormal sound is in presence according to the acquired real time sound data; when animal abnormal sound is detected, positioning the direction which the abnormal sound comes from; positioning the accurate position of a sounding animal in the direction which the abnormal sound comes from; marking the animal abnormal sound and the sounding position and storing in a history audio fileform. According to the invention, the non-intrusion, continuous and real time sound system is adopted for monitoring the abnormal sounding condition of animals at night, accurate identification of abnormal sounding of animals at night by breeding staff is assisted, and animal sound type identification accuracy and positioning precision are improved. 24-hour continuous monitoring of the animal breeding shed is realized, so that the system saves man power and material resource and improves breeding management efficiency substantially.

The invention provides a method for breeding medical ground beetles and belongs to the technical field of medical animal breeding. The method for breeding the medical ground beetles comprises the steps of control over a place of a breeding party, temperature and humidity, management of breeding fodder, breeding soil of the ground beetles, an egg reservation of the ground beetles and incubation of eggs, management of larvae of the ground beetles and medium-sized ground beetles, management of copulation, management of adults, prevention and treatment of diseases and pests, collection and processing of the ground beetles and finished product storage of the ground beetles. The method for breeding the medical ground beetles accords with the original wild life habits of the ground beetles, the growth and breeding speed of the ground beetles is greatly increased, and the ground beetles are good in medical property, strong in efficacy, good in quality and high in market selling price.

The invention relates to the field of animal breeding and animal medicine, and provides a method and a device for measuring the core body temperature of livestock. According to the measuring method, in accordance with a physiological structure of the measured livestock, a temperature sensor is coupled with the body surface close to the core body temperature, a heat flux conduction formula is utilized, the temperature gradient of artificial materials can be calculated through heat resistance, the heat resistance of a measured position of body tissues is derived, and the core body temperature is deduced in an inversion way through the measured body surface temperature. Before the long-time use, the correction is carried out through measured values of the rectal temperature. The device comprises a heat transfer layer, an outside heat insulation layer and three temperature sensors, wherein the heat conductivity and the thickness of the heat transfer layer are known, the temperature measuring parameters of the three temperature sensors are very close through tests, and the temperature sensors are used for respectively measuring the surface temperature of the skin coupling position, the surface temperature outside the heat transfer layer and the surface temperature outside the heat insulation layer. When the method and the device provided by the invention are used, the long-period, continuous and dynamic core body temperature measurement on the livestock can be realized.

The invention discloses a method and systems for monitoring daily activities of an animal, and belongs to the technical field of image data processing. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a background image of an animal breeding box, and putting the animal in the box; acquiring an animal image, subtracting the animal image from the background image, and marking pixel points higher than a threshold during subtracting; calculating average coordinates of the marked pixel points, and calculating movement displacement and movement distance; marking position coordinates which correspond to the movement distance and are less than or equal to a set threshold as stationary points, and marking sleeping once when the number of the continuous stationary points is more than or equal to the threshold of the number of the stationary points; and acquiring sleep rhythms, sleep time, sleep frequency and motion trail of the experimental animal according to the marked result. The invention also provides two kinds of systems for monitoring the daily activities of the animal. The method and the systems can perform non-interfering monitoring on a plurality of experimental animals for a lone time, and automatically acquire and analyze experimental data such as sleep cycle rhythms, time, frequency and motion trail of the experimental animals.

The invention relates to an automation solar energy biogas fermentation method, which belongs to the fields of environmental protection and chemical engineering. Aiming at the defects in the conventional biogas production process, the invention provides an automation solar energy biogas fermentation method and an automation solar energy biogas fermentation device, which can implement the steps of feeding, stirring, discharging, constant temperature and quantifying automatically in the north part of China in winter. The automation solar energy biogas fermentation method comprises the steps that: an automatic feeding delivery pump sends feces mixture in a feces collection pool into a material tank in a hydrolytic acidification treatment tank to carry out the hydrolytic acidification treatment; after being treated by the hydrolytic acidification treatment tank, the feces mixture is sent to a material tank in an anaerobic digestion tank by an automatic feeding pump; a solar thermal collector sends hot water into water collection interlayer of the hydrolytic acidification treatment tank and the anaerobic digestion tank by a temperature controlled pump and a solar energy hot water circulation system; and generated gas is injected into a gas holder for users to use after the treatment of desulfuration and solid-liquid separation. The automation solar energy biogas fermentation method and the automation solar energy biogas fermentation device are established on the basis of automatic program control of biogas feeding, stirring, discharging, constant temperature and quantity limitation, and correspond to the current development situation of the farmers of the animal breeding in China at present.

The invention provides methods of modifying the level of expression or functional activity of factors such as enzymes or other catalytic proteins or structural proteins, alone or in concert, to modify the frequency of meiotic homologous recombination involving the exchange of genetic information between non-sister chromatids from homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes. The steps at which modulation may occur include: homologous chromosome pairing, double-strand break formation; resection; strand invasion; branch migration; and resolution. Methods of plant and animal breeding are also provided that utilize the modulation of meiotic homologous recombination.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a functional microbial preparation from lactic acid bacillus and yeast, which is characterized in that: liquid of beneficial strains is adopted for culture; cell walls of the strains are collected centrifugally; a strain group is subjected to solid amplification culture; and a culture is added with the collected cell walls rich in polysaccharide. The method has the advantages that: high-concentration lactobacillus in the product can obviously improve the digestion and absorption of bred animals, and the generated metabolic products such as peptidogly can improve the immunity of the animals to pathogen; the high-concentration yeast in the product can improve rich single cell proteins required by the growth of the animals, and simultaneously the yeast cells are subjected to full wall breaking, and release a great amount of beta-1,3-glucan so as to obviously improve the immunity to Gram positive bacteria and Gram negative bacteria; and grain crops and common feeds are adopted as main raw materials for a culture medium, the production cost is reduced, and the method is easy to promote in animal breeding.

Provided is a multi-functional intelligent necklace for animals. The two ends of a sheeting structure and the two ends of a master control connecting structure are each provided with a connecting rod, the two ends of a flexible connecting band are connected with the ends of the corresponding connecting rods of the sheeting structure or the master control connecting structure, rechargeable batteries are arranged in the sheeting structure and the master control connecting structure, one ends of the sheeting structure and the master control connecting structure are each provided with a groove, USB access ports are arranged in the grooves of the sheeting structure and the master control connecting structure, the other ends of the sheeting structure and the master control connecting structure are each provided with one or more wireless signal emission receivers, the inner walls of the sheeting structure and the master control connecting structure are each provided with a flexible cushion, the outer walls of the sheeting structure and the master control connecting structure are each provided with an external solar cell panel, a connecting pillar is arranged on the lower portion of the middle of the master control connecting structure, and the bottom of the connecting pillar is connected with an electronic animal board. The multi-functional intelligent necklace for the animals has the functions of recording, sampling, on-line tracing and the like, and various functions can be suitable for needs of industries such as animal breeding, training and scientific research which are related to the animals .

The invention belongs to the field of sanitary examination, and relates to a LAMP kit for testing classical swine fever virus and an establishing method and an application thereof. The kit contains a test system which is composed of the LAMP reaction liquid of six LAMP primers. The tests prove that the kit of the invention has good specificity and sensitivity, fast amplification speed, high efficiency and simple and convenient identification. The test system of the invention can rapidly and conveniently test the classical swine fever virus in high-efficiency, high-specificity and high-sensitivity under the isothermal condition of 65 DEG C without complicate instruments, can better satisfy the spot tests for the classical swine fever virus, provides a novel technical platform for food safety testing, can better meet the urgent requirements for the spot testing of foot and mouth diseases at present, is used for the spot testing of import and export quarantine, food sanitary departments, animal breeding farms, etc, and is easy to be popularized in a wide range.

The invention discloses Chicken semen diluent as well as a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of animal breeding. Chicken semen is diluted for normal temperature preservation and artificial insemination. The Chicken semen diluent takes sterile distilled water as a solvent and contains fructose, citric acid, sodium glutamate, potassium chloride, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate, Tris, bovine serum albumin, VB12 (Vitamin B12), streptomycin and penicillin. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: dissolving the fructose, citric acid, sodium glutamate, potassium chloride, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate, Tris, bovine serum albumin and VB12 into a small amount of sterile distilled water under the sterile condition, adding the penicillin and the streptomycin, adding the sterile distilled water, mixing uniformly to obtain the Chicken semen diluent, and preserving at the temperature of 4 DEG C; and preheating the Chicken semen diluent to the temperature of 37 DEG C, and mixing the Chicken semen diluent and Chicken semen, wherein the mass ratio of the Chicken semen to the Chicken semen diluent is (1:1)-(1:2). The Chicken semen diluent has the advantages of simplicity and convenience in preparation, convenience in material acquisition, low cost and easiness in popularization.

The invention belongs to the technical field of animal breeding, in particular to a method for identifying fast feather type and slow feather type of chickens by applying double PCR. The method comprises the following steps: (1) designing two pairs of primers by utilizing a correlation sequence of a K gene locus found on a Z chromosome of a chicken according to structures of alleles of the fast and slow feather type; (2) extracting DNAs of chicken blood samples of the known fast and slow feather type to carry out a primer specificity test, and identifying the chicken to be a fast feather type or a slow feather type according to the size and the existence of an amplified DNA segment. When only one 350bp band is amplified, the chicken is judged to be a fast feather type, and when two bands of 350bp and 909bp are amplified, the chicken is judged to be a slow feather type. The invention also discloses a reliable checking method of the identifying method and applies the checking method to a breeding process of a self identification male and female matched system of the fast and slow feathers. The invention can shorten the breeding time of the self identification male and female matched system of the fast and slow feathers and save the breeding cost.

The invention provides improved assays for detection of pregnancy. In the assays, pregnancy associated glycoproteins are analyzed in conjunction with progesterone analysis. The techniques of the invention overcome limitations in the prior art by reducing the rate of false positive results. The assays provided by the invention can be implemented to increase the efficiency of commercial animal breeding programs.

The invention discloses application of a substituted benzene guanidine derivative serving as a polymyxins antibiotic potentiator. For the first time, the substituted benzene guanidine derivative is found to be capable of serving as the polymyxins antibiotic potentiator, especially serving as a synergist of a polymyxins antibiotic to inhibit sensitive strains and a drug resistance reversal agent of the polymyxins antibiotic. The invention further provides combined application of the substituted benzene guanidine derivative or a combination containing the same and the polymyxins antibiotic in preparation of compound drug preparations for people or animals to treat diseases caused by gram-negative bacterial infection. The invention further provides combined application of the substituted benzene guanidine derivative or a combination containing the same and the polymyxins antibiotic in preparation of forage-use growth-promoting feed additives for animal breeding in animal husbandry.

Disclosed is a compound immunopotentiator for freshwater fry, which is characterized in that the compound immunopotentiator is composed of by weight proportion: 25-35% of Beta-glucan, 20-30% of chitosan, 15-25% of bacillus subtilis, 10-15% of vitamin C, 8-13% of bupleurum, 7-11% of astragalus and 5-8% of eucommia ulmoides. The compound immunopotentiator has the advantages that: (1) the compound immunopotentiator is used as feed additive in fry feed with the addition of 0.1%-0.2%; (2) the immunity of fry is obviously enhanced and the survival rate is improved; (3) the immune effect is higher than the immune effect of single immunopotentiator; the immunosuppression phenomenon caused by the long-term application of single immunopotentiator is overcome so that the compound immunopotentiator can be used in the whole cycle of animal breeding; (4) the source of raw materials is stable; the raw materials have low price, and the production process is simple.

The invention is applicable to the field of animal breeding, and provides an intelligent feed put-in system and method. The system comprises a trough, and further comprises an animal detecting module for sensing animals entering an eating area and for detecting the number and weights of the animals, a control module for calculating the equivalent number and body sizes of the animals according to the number and weights of the animals, an environment sensing module for sensing the environment parameters around the intelligent feed put-in system, a feed module for detecting the residual amount of feed in the trough and processing a prefixed amount of feed and water into a feed and water mixture with preset humidity according to the equivalent number and body sizes of the animals, the environment parameters and the residual amount of feed, and putting the feed and water mixture into the trough. The animals entering the eating area can be sensed, and the put-in amount and humidity of feed can be controlled according to the residual amount of feed, the environment parameters and the equivalent number and body sizes of the animals, feed surplus and deficiency can be effectively avoided, and breeding benefits are improved.

The invention discloses an intelligent animal feeding system which comprises an electronic mark on the body of an ingestion animal, an identity recognition unit, a feeding trough, a control unit, a fodder preparing unit, a triggering unit, a biosensor and an environment collector. The fodder preparing unit, the triggering unit, the biosensor and the environment collector are respectively connected with the control unit. The identity recognition unit is used for reading information of the electronic mark and transmitting the information to the control unit. The control unit is used for analyzing behavioral habits of the ingestion animal within corresponding time according to data collected by the triggering unit, the biosensor and the environment collector, a free eating time quantum and a limited eating time quantum of the ingestion animal are set according to the behavioral habits, and the speed and the volume of edible fodder conveyed by the fodder preparing unit to the fodder trough are automatically adjusted in the set free eating time quantum. According to the intelligent animal feeding system, the behavioral habits of the ingestion animal are conformed, the stress response of the animal is reduced, and the maximization of the economic benefit of animal breeding is achieved. In addition, the invention provides a feeding method of the intelligent animal feeding system.

The invention discloses a long-acting recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone-Fc fusion protein (hFSH-Fc) and a preparation method thereof. The hFSH-Fc is a dimerization fusion protein. An amino acid sequence of the hFSH-Fc comprises an hFSHbeta subunit, CTP (carboxy-terminal peptide), an hFSHalpha subunit, a flexible peptide linker and a human IgG (immunoglobulin G)2 Fc variant from the N terminal to the C terminal in sequence. The hFSH-Fc has longer half-life in vivo and better efficacy than existing FSH. The invention also relates to an application of a recombinant hFSH-Fc composition to preparation of drugs in the field of animal breeding.

The invention relates to the field of animal breeding, in particular to a feeding method for improving the propagating quality of sows. The feeding method for improving the propagating quality of the sows aims at solving the problems in the sow feeding process at the present stage according to the sow growth characteristics. By means of the feeding method for improving the propagating quality of the sows, the survival rate of piglets can be effectively increased, the weight of the piglets is even, the number of the weak piglets is small, and the farrow weight is large; weight losses of the sows are small after ablactation is carried out; the sows can be in heat on time at the time five to seven days after ablactation is carried out; the feed intake of the sows is large in the lactation period, and the milk yield of the sows is large; the ablactation weight of the piglets can be 8.5 kg or more when the piglets are 28 days old; the sows are free of constipation; the number of inflammations of the postpartum sows is small, and the sows are healthy; the in-heat rate is low after the sows are hybridized; the marketing time of bred hogs is shortened by 10 days; the life of the sows is prolonged; the annual marketing number of the sows is increased.

The present invention relates to the technical field of animal breeding, in particular to a breeding method of the meat-cashmere goat, which resolves the problems of the prior meat goat and the prior Cashmere goat that the meat output and the cashmere output are not balanced. The present invention firstly selects the breeding goat of the Inner Mongolian cashmere goat to be mated with the local excellent-quality original goat to get the first generation of the hybrid variety; and then selects the KELAN breeding cashmere goat, the Asian gazelle, the Boer goat, the cashmere goat in Gaizhou of Liaoning and the new generation of Liaoning cashmere as the male parent to mate with the offspring of the excellent hybrid goat so as to finally get a new variety of the meat-cashmere goat. The present invention adopts the diversity hybrid way to form a new goat strain both for the meat and the cashmere after breeding in more than twenty years, which integrates the advantages of the meat goat and the cashmere goat and has the advantages that the goat is heavy when born, the weight is heavy and the growth is fast; the meat yield and the cashmere yield are high; the sex maturation is early and the production rate is high; after breeding in large scale, the present invention has important significance for improving the life of the people and developing the cultivation industry, which has a favorable economic benefit and the social benefit.