72 results about "Animal groups" patented technology

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, 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.

Methods and systems are provided for monitoring a herd of animals. Each of multiple sensors are attached to one of the animals and is in peer-to-peer communication with another of the sensors to define a dynamically network arrangement of sensors. A base station is in communication with at least one of the sensors to access the networked arrangement of sensors. A central system is in communication with the base station and has instructions to monitor a position of the herd with data collected by the sensors.

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 invention discloses a portable neural regulation system for collaborative behaviors of animal groups. The system comprises an instruction transmitting unit composed of a user control terminal and an instruction transmitter, and multiple wearable multi-channel animal behavior neural regulators. The user control terminal is used for an experimenter to send a control instruction through a control interface to control the multiple animal behavior neural regulators synchronously. The instruction transmitter is used for controlling the multiple animal behavior neural regulators synchronously, and includes a first microcontroller and a first wireless communication module. The animal behavior neural regulators are worn on tested animals. Each animal behavior neural regulator includes a second wireless communication module, a second microcontroller, a micro-current stimulation module, a GPS positioning module, an environment perception module, and a data storage module. The advantage is that a single tested animal can be controlled, multiple tested animals can be controlled in real time, and control on a tested animal group is realized.

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 discloses a recombinant strain for Brucella abortus provided with an immune label. The recombinant strain for the Brucella melitensis provided with the immune label is a strain obtained by killing encoding genes of perosamine synthetase in the Brucella abortus. Compared with an original strain, the obtained strain has lower virulence, and can be used as a vaccine to immunize animals without killing the genes. By utilization of the strain to immunize a mouse, immunoreaction states different from those of the standard strain and the prior vaccine strain can be generated in the body of the mouse, and sicken animals can be identified from immune animal groups by immunological detection of serum of the animals. The modification of the brucelliasis vaccine and the research of a diagnosis and identification agent have important significance in developing a brucelliasis gene deletion marker vaccine and a matched diagnosis and identification agent and promoting the elimination and purification of brucelliasis of the animals all over the world.

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.

Selecting the nutrition for an animal or animal group comprises performing a diagnostic test to obtain first data. A data base that comprises first data relating a genomic analysis of a bodily fluid or tissue sample from an animal to a physiological condition and optionally the genotype of the animal is accessed. A data base that comprises second data relating to effects of nutrition on genomic analysis is accessed. The first and second data are processed with input data defining the physiological condition and optionally the genotype of the animal or animal group to derive the nutrition for an animal or animal group.

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 breeding room. A cage is installed in the breeding room; a partition is arranged in the cage, and the partition can divide the space in the cage into a first motion space and a second motion space; opening / closing doors are arranged on one sides of the first motion space and the second motion space; a sewage outlet is formed in a ground near the lower slopeside in the second motion space; and the partition can selectively disconnect and connect the first motion space and the second motion space. The cage installed in the group breeding room can realizegroup breeding of primate animals, normal instinctive behaviors of the animals can be ensured, and the accuracy of the experimental results can be guaranteed; when the cage needs to be cleaned, replacement of the cage can be avoided, the labor cost of cleaning is reduced, and spreading of pathogenic bacteria is reduced; and in addition, after the cage is cleaned, dirt is discharged from the sewage outlet along the slope of the ground, cleaning is convenient, effort is saved, and the efficiency is high.

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.

Biomaterials with enhanced properties such as improved strength, flexibility, durability and reduced thickness are useful in the fabrication of biomedical devices, particularly those subjected to continuous or non-continuous loads where repeated flexibility and long-term durability are required. These enhanced properties can be attributed to elevated levels of elastin, altered collagen types, and other biochemical changes which contribute to these enhanced properties. Examples of devices which would be improved by use of such tissue include heart valves, including percutaneous heart valves, and vascular grafts, patches and the like. Such enhanced materials can be sourced from specific populations of animals, such as neonatal calves, or in range-fed adult cattle, or can be fabricated or created from cell populations exhibiting such properties. In one embodiment, glutaraldehyde-fixed neonatal pericardial tissue is used to create leaflets in a percutaneous heart valve, and may be used without chemical fixation, with or without processes to remove residual cellular membranes, and utilized as a scaffold material for tissue engineering.