72 results about "Animal groups" patented technology

A system, method, and apparatus is provided for computerized management of the databases relating to phenotypic health assessment and genomic mapping and genetic screening of animals. Multiple remote users can access a computer network connected with a central database processing resource for managing the data There is appropriate security and payment of appropriate fees for accessing and retrieving data Users may input data relating to animal health, lifespan, and genetic background, and obtain reports relating to phenotypic health assessment of a particular animal subject or animal group, and genotypic characteristics of a particular subject or animal group to which this subject belongs. The central computer database processing resource stores phenotypic data and genotypic data relating to animals and analyzes their relationship according to predetermined criteria. The input of data and reporting of data is preferably electronic, or through fax or voice communication. The analysis of the health assessment database and genetic database can be automatic and/or in part manually interpreted by experts related to the central database processing resources.

The purpose of the invention is to disclose a porcine circovirus, porcine parvovirus and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus triplex virus-like particle vaccine and its preparation method. The triple virus-like particle vaccine (Triple VLP vaccine) of the invention contains VLP which is composed of PCV-2 major structural protein CAP protein, PPV VP2 protein epitope and PRRSV Gp5 protein epitope. It is proved by experiment that the vaccine can stimulate good double cellular and humoral immune response. It is shown by pharmacodynamic test that after immunization of different animal groups, the vaccine of injection, nose drops and water forms prepared by VLP antigen formed by the method with or without adjuvants can safely and effectively prevent the infection of PCV-2, PPV and PRRSV. The invention provides an ideal vaccine for the security of sows, piglets and fattening pigs to effectively prevent mixed infection of PCV-2, PPV and PRRSV.

The invention relates to an intelligent grazing system. The intelligent grazing system comprises a central processing system and terminals, wherein the central processing system is connected with the terminals by network communication; the terminals are arranged on individual domestic animals; each terminal comprises a data processing unit, a data transmitting unit and a positioning unit; the data processing units are used for processing come-and-go data in the terminals; each positioning unit is used for acquiring the position information of the corresponding terminal; and the data transmitting units are used for transmitting position data to the central processing system through a network, so that the central processing system can acquire the positions of the terminals in real time, and the positions of the animals with the terminals are obtained. By using the intelligent grazing system, management on animal groups is facilitated, and lost animals can be conveniently found out.

The present invention provides a tilmicosin dry suspension. The invention also provides a method for preparing the dry suspension and uses thereof. According to the tilmicosin dry suspension of the present invention, via reasonable compatibility of excipients, dispersion of tilmicosin in water is significantly improved, so the tilmicosin is enabled to be evenly distributed in the water in a long time, convenient for clinical administration of medicine by drinking water. Meanwhile, the dry suspension has greatly improved the palatability of the tilmicosin, so the dry suspension can be used not only for animal groups with underdeveloped taste such as chickens, but also for other animal groups with sensitive taste such as pigs, thus expanding the scope of application of the product.

The invention discloses an animal recognition and quantity statistics method based on an unmanned aerial vehicle and the unmanned aerial vehicle. The method comprises the following steps: presetting an image recognition model of at least one animal in the unmanned aerial vehicle; Collecting image information of an animal group through remote sensing equipment carried in the unmanned aerial vehicle; And identifying the at least one animal in the image information according to the image identification model of the at least one animal, and counting the number information of the at least one animal. According to the animal recognition and quantity statistics method based on the unmanned aerial vehicle and the unmanned aerial vehicle, the types and quantity of animals can be comprehensively, rapidly and accurately recognized in real time.

The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for identification of individual animals based on images, such as 3D-images, of the animals, especially of cattle and cows. When animals live in areas or enclosures where they freely move around, it can be complicated to identify the individual animal. In a first aspect the present disclosure relates to a method for determining the identity of an individual animal in a population of animals with known identity, the method comprising the steps of acquiring at least one image of the back of a preselected animal, extracting data from said at least one image relating to the anatomy of the back and/or topology of the back of the preselected animal, and comparing and/or matching said extracted data against reference data corresponding to the anatomy of the back and/or topology of the back of the animals with known identity, thereby identifying the preselected animal. The method and system can be used to monitor feed intake, such as feed intake for dairy cows as well as health status.

The invention provides an electronic ear tag for animal group breeding. The electronic ear tag comprises a passive low frequency electronic tag and an active ultrahigh frequency electronic tag. The passive low frequency electronic tag comprises a copper coil and a response chip conforming to the international animal tag standard international standardization organization (ISO) 11784/5. The active ultrahigh frequency electronic tag comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) antenna, a radio frequency receiving chip modulated by ultrahigh frequency amplitude shift keying (ASK), a single-chip computer, a button cell and a high-brightness light emitting diode (LED). The PCB antenna is connected with the radio frequency receiving chip, the radio frequency receiving chip, the button cell and the high-brightness LED are all connected with the single-chip computer, the single-chip computer comprises a storage module for storing a unique ear tag identity (ID) number of the passive low frequency electronic tag, and the unique ID numbers correspond to identity marks of animal one to one. An animal identification method for using the electronic ear tag to achieve animal group breeding is provided. Under the condition of low cost, the electronic ear tag for the animal group breeding and the identification method simultaneously support international animal standard, achieve remote identification, and are particularly suitable for being used under the condition of animal group breeding and good in practicability.

The invention relates to a rabbit haemorrhagic disease tissue inactivated vaccine and a preparation method thereof. The rabbit haemorrhagic disease tissue inactivated vaccine comprises a rabbit haemorrhagic disease tissue virus liquid and a propolis adjuvant, wherein every liter of virus extracting solution contains 5-15mg of propolis. The preparation method mainly comprises the following steps of: treating pathological materials of a disease and obtaining a virus liquid; inactivating viruses; preparing a vaccine; inspecting the safety and immune efficiency of the vaccine; and performing split charging on the vaccine. A vaccine pathogen is passed and proliferated after separation, and comprehensive antigen components are used for comprehensively inducing inoculated animal groups on multiple aspects, so that good effects of preventing and controlling diseases can be achieved. The adopted propolis adjuvant is a good immunopotentiator as well as an irritant, has broad spectrum biologic activity, can be used for causing specific immune response and starting a nonspecific defense mechanism, and has the remarkable effects of improving immune antibody generation and increasing the leucocyte phagocytosis.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of image processing, and provides an unmanned grazing method and device, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium, and the unmanned grazing method comprises the steps: obtaining a region image of a monitoring region; performing image analysis on the area image to obtain state basic data of an animal group in the monitoring area; accordingto the state basic data, carrying out exception identification on the animal group; if the abnormal recognition result is that the animal group has an abnormal condition, generating a grazing strategy, and sending the grazing strategy to a grazing robot to instruct the grazing robot to graze the animal group according to the grazing strategy. According to the embodiment of the invention, the reliability of unmanned grazing is improved, and economic loss caused by timely processing of abnormal conditions of animal groups is avoided.

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) and their haplotypes, across the bovine genome in genes encoding polypeptides associated with feed efficiency, and their associations with residual feed intake in beef production. The invention further encompasses methods and systems, including network-based processes, to manage the SNP data, haplotype 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.

The invention provides application of cistanche deserticola polysaccharides as a vaccine adjuvant. Through tests such as detecting OVA (ovalbumin) specific antibody titer and cellular immunological activity in mice sera by animal grouping and immunizing methods and ELISA (enzyme linked immunosorbent assay), results show that the cistanche deserticola polysaccharides can serve as the adjuvant of a protein vaccine, a nucleic acid vaccine, a polypeptide vaccine, an inactivated vaccine or a live attenuated vaccine, and are obviously superior to an aluminum adjuvant in immunoenhancement effect, little in side effect, wide in source and easy to produce, and a preparation process of the cistanche deserticola polysaccharides is simple, low in cost, high in yield and beneficial to large-scale production.

Disclosed is a wireless sensor network node three-dimensional positioner of a leader intelligent choice mechanism. The invention provides the wireless sensor network node three-dimensional positioner of the leader intelligent choice optimization based on received signal intensity distance measurement and on a biology heuristic method. A simple animal group leader preference mode is designed, a leader searcher obtains one leader candidate group, abilities of each candidate leader are evaluated, an optimal individual is selected as a leader, and the leader represents a globally optimal solution in positioner optimization problems. The problem of three-dimensional node positioning is abstracted into a nonlinearity unconstrained optimization problem by defining a three-dimensional node positioning objective function to which distance measurement is taken fully consideration, then the nonlinearity unconstrained optimization problem is solved by utilizing a leader intelligent choice optimization algorithm, and the solution is the three-dimensional coordinate estimated value of the node positioner. The wireless sensor network node three-dimensional positioner is easy to achieve, node positional accuracy is improved, calculation complexity is reduced, and the effect of range errors on the result is small.

A nail file assembly includes a file sub-assembly that secures preferably to an index of a human hand. The sub-assembly has a flexible sheet having an outer surface that carries an abrasive layer and an opposite inner surface that preferably carries at least in-part a fastener for securing the sheet to the index. With the sub-assembly secured to the index, the remaining indexes of the hand are free to manipulate and support the indexes of an uncooperative fauna that carry respective nails to be filed. When filing, the index of the assembly and which carryies the sub-assembly is free to pivot back and forth across the nail of the fauna.

The embodiment of the invention provides an abnormal sound monitoring method and system used in a livestock farm. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring sound signals which are acquired by a plurality of sound acquisition devices arranged in a livestock farm, wherein a sound picking range of the sound acquisition devices covers the livestock farm; confirming abnormal sound signal segments of the sound signals acquired by using the sound acquisition devices; carrying out repeated sound filtering processing on the abnormal sound signals so as to filter off repeated abnormal sound signal segments; generating monitoring information by using the abnormal sound signal segments after repeated sound filtering. By adopting the embodiment of the invention, abnormal sound of animal groups of a whole livestock farm can be monitored.

The invention discloses an environmental DNA macro bar code method for researching a macrobenthic animal community structure. One technical scheme to be protected by the invention is the application of the primer pair in detecting the community structure of the macrobenthos in the water area to be detected. The primer pair is named as COI and is composed of a primer 1 and a primer 2, and the primer 1 and the primer 2 can be a sequence 1 and a sequence 2 in a sequence table. Compared with a traditional method, the COI primer provided by the invention is used for amplifying an environmental DNAsample of a to-be-detected water area, and sequencing and annotation analysis are carried out to obtain more obvious species, especially benthonic animal groups which are easy to escape, small in sizeand partial in life history in water; and the method can supplement benthonic animal abundance data which are easy to ignore, difficult to find and small in size in a traditional investigation method, effectively improves the identification level, species detection rate and abundance evaluation accuracy of the large benthonic animals, and is an effective and reliable new method for investigatingthe community structure of the large benthonic animals.

The invention belongs to the field of traditional Chinese medicinal fermentation medicines, and in particular discloses a compound Chinese herbal microecological preparation with the efficacies of supporting right and resolving toxins for beasts and birds and a preparation method of the compound Chinese herbal microecological preparation. The preparation method of the compound Chinese herbal microecological preparation comprises the following steps: taking 40-60 parts of radix isatidis, 40-60 parts of radix astragali, 20-30 parts of herba epimedii, 15-20 parts of radix pseudostellariae, and 10-15 parts of folium isatidis; grinding the raw materials, and screening the obtained powder by adopting a sieve, thus obtaining compound Chinese herbal powder; stirring for mixing the compound Chinese herbal powder and fermentation liquor of four probiotics including lactobacillus plantarum, saccharomycetes, lactobacillus casei LCZ-1 and bacillus subtilis, and carrying out fermentation, thus obtaining the compound Chinese herbal microecological preparation. The prepared microecological preparation has the efficacies of supporting healthy qi, consolidating the foundation, and clearing away heat and toxic materials, can enhance the body immunity of bred animals and improve the disease resistance of the bred animals, and has small side effects, the use of antibiotics can be reduced, the drug residue and drug abuse can be avoided, the requirements of no pollution and safety are satisfied, and the prevention and control for the bred animal groups are facilitated.

The invention discloses a brain wave synchronized learning training system used for animal groups. The system comprises a training device and a control system; the training device is a cylindrical cavity of an upper opening structure, wherein the cylindrical cavity is divided into an upper layer animal movement region and a lower layer equipment installation region; the animal movement region is divided into multiple independent animal behavior training regions through transparent partitioning plates, structures of all the animal behavior training regions are identical, and each animal behavior training region comprises a vision stimulation presentation device, a behavior detection device and a reward and punishment device; the vision stimulation presentation devices are arranged on the side wall of the cylindrical cavity, and the behavior detection devices are arranged at intervals in fronts of the vision stimulation presentation devices; the reward and punishment devices are composedof food boxes and food box covers driven by driving mechanisms. With the system, the requirement for early behavior training in individual animal neural signal decoding based on instrumental learningis met, the requirement for training based on clustered decoding is also met, an experimental training platform is provided for research on group social behavior neural mechanisms of animals, and human participation is reduced due to automatic setting of the training system.

The present invention relates to a chelated fertilizer composition for enriching Iron and Phosphorus content in agriculture/horticulture crops and plants through foliar application. The fertilizer composition is prepared using compounds comprising chelating agents and Ferric Oxide (Fe2O3). The chelation of Fe by disodium salt of Hydroxy Ethylidene Di Phosphonic Acid (Na2 HEDP) developed 17% to 18% Fe-HEDP and 31% Phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5). The final chelated fertilizer composition obtained is in powder form and is 100% water-soluble concentrate. The chelated fertilizer composition can be used to cure Iron and Phosphorus deficiency in crops and plants, increase yield with more Iron and Phosphorus content, thus reducing the risk of Iron and Phosphorus deficiency in humans.

The invention relates to the field of animal husbandry and particularly relates to a composition and application thereof to preparation of a product for preventing and treating animal group changing stress response. The composition is prepared from rhizoma coptidis, rheum officinale, baking soda, gypsum and sodium sulfate, has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, invigorating stomach and increasing the appetite, and can be used for effectively preventing common diseases before and after group changing. An experiment shows that a goat is used as an experiment object; and the composition provided by the invention can prevent and treat group changing stress and has good effect, and the morbidity and the death rate of animals can be remarkably reduced. Therefore, the composition provided by the invention can be used for preparing feed or an additive for preventing and treating the animal group changing stress response.

The invention relates to an animal group geographical zoning method based on species composition characteristics. Geographical zoning is carried out by utilizing the distribution pattern of species. The method is based on a fine grid network, and utilizes species distribution data to establish a spatial distribution binary grid image of each species in a target area. The binary images are fused assingle waveband data to obtain species distribution multispectral data of the target area. A species composition dissimilarity index is established as an inter-grid species difference measurement unit for clustering and grouping to obtain a category to which each grid unit belongs. And finally, an appropriate drawing comprehensive rule is formulated to carry out vectorization display on the grouped grids to obtain a vector-based animal group geographical zoning result graph. According to the method, geographical zoning is carried out by directly utilizing the distribution data of the species,so that compared with the conventional method for carrying out zoning by mainly utilizing environmental factors, the actual geographical zoning of species composition is better reflected, and meanwhile, a basis is provided for carrying out geographical zoning of different levels and different granularities.

A testing device for in-group levels of small animals comprises a waiting bin, a channel pipe, a food box, an infrared camera and a video recording computer, wherein a slot is formed in the waiting bin, a slot door is arranged in the slot in an inserted manner, animal feed is placed in the food box, an openable cover is arranged at the top of the food box, the waiting bin and the food box are connected through the channel pipe, and the infrared camera and the video recording computer are electrically connected through a data transmission line. Fighting of animals for limited food is strengthened through movement limitation and hunger treatment of animals, and the fighting for food is converted into competition of food space. The competition of the animals for the food and food space induces the animals to show the real social status in groups. The invention also provides an experimental method using the device. Compared with a traditional device, the testing device is proved to have more stable and reliable experimental results, can substantially enhance the experimental efficiency, and also has the advantages that experimental operation is simple and easy to master, and the experimental device is convenient to mount and dismount and occupies no space and the like.

A trap for large animals. The system utilizes multi-containment areas for improved efficiency in herd animal trapping. The outer containment zone of the system is designed in such a way to promote animals further into the inner containment zone. The improved efficiency lowers overall cost of trap operation in terms of time, consumable bait replenishment and number of attempts on target animal groups. The system allows for independent and remote actuation of containment zone gates. Data is transmitted to a remote user and remote actuation of attracting or deterring audio can be done during trapping process. The architecture of the trap dissuades animals capable of jumping from doing so over the containment walls.

The present invention relates to an animal healthcare device which includes an input unit configured to receive questionnaire items according to a prevalent disease for each classified animal group and diagnostic information of the animal using a differential diagnosis or examination content corresponding to the questionnaire items; a determination unit configured to determine whether the prevalent disease is expressed using the diagnostic information; and an output unit configured to output whether the prevalent disease is expressed.