348 results about "Animal production" patented technology

A method, and systems implementing such method, for reducing methane emissions by ruminants. The method includes providing a feed dispenser for feeding ruminants one or more nutrient supplements, and the feed dispenser includes a gas analyzer proximate to where the ruminant places its head. The method includes determining a particular ruminant has accessed the feed dispenser such as by reading an identifier from an RFID ear tag and operating the feed dispenser to provide a ration of methane-controlling nutrient supplement. The method includes using the gas analyzer to determine levels of carbon dioxide and methane and operating a data analyzing station to determine a ratio of methane to carbon dioxide and modify the type or amount of nutrient supplement for the ruminant for a next feeding to control methane production or achieve an animal production goal, such as by selectively operating a hopper with two or more supplements compartments.

A cattle management system and method are provided for managing numerous routine and non-routine management activities. The system and method incorporate a data processing system wherein comprehensive data is gathered and maintained on each individual animal as well as on selected groups of animals. Preferably, a central database is used which allows enhanced functionality with respect to not only data entry and data transfer, but also with respect to providing system generated management recommendations. Some significant functionality of the present invention includes the ability to track the location of each individual animal by utilizing unique identification data for each animal, recording all monitored events that take place at each location during the animal's production cycle, managing feeding operations at a feed lot wherein ration changes can be automatically triggered by parameters and rules established for each feed lot, and reporting the events and locations as required to government entities, financial institutions, and other entities within the cattle industry.

The invention relates to a laying hen feed prepared from bran, salt, corn grit, fish meal, ground oyster shells, rice bran, bean dregs and a traditional Chinese medicine feed additive, wherein the traditional Chinese medicine feed additive comprises the following components: honeysuckle, common cnidium fruit, corydalis tuber, small fennel, motherwort, self-heal, houttuynia, baikal skullcap root, dyers woad leaf, dangshen, astragalus root, angelica sinensis, medical stone, eclipta, dodder, barbat skullcap and weeping forsythia. The feed additive provided by the invention has both medicinal and nutritional actions, can prevent diseases and can also improve the production performance; the feed additive can directly sterilize and inhibit bacteria, adjusts the immunity function of of the organism, has non-specific antibacterial action, and greatly improves the survival rate of chicken; and the feed additive eliminates chemical damage to the chicken, can effectively improve the production performance of animals, simultaneously has small toxic side effects and no drug resistance, can effectively improve the egg quality, achieves the requirements of purely natural green food, and can acquire good economic benefit.

The invention belongs to the technical field of feed additives, and in particular relates to complex enzyme for a feed. The complex enzyme comprises 7,500 to 15,000U/g of xylanase, 1,000 to 3,000U/g of mannose, 50 to 80U/g of galactosidase, 200 to 700U/g of cellulose, 500 to 1,500U/g of beta-glucanase, 150 to 1,000U/g of alpha-amylase, 2,000 to 10,000U/g of protease and 100 to 200U/g of pectinase. By adding corresponding enzyme preparations, the anti-nutrition function of the complex enzyme is reduced, the feed utilization is improved, and the animal production efficiency is improved, so the problems that the utilization rate of animal feed raw materials is low and the animal production performance is inhibited are effectively solved; meanwhile, the complex enzyme has the advantages of reasonable raw material mixing, good effect, and low overall cost.

The invention belongs to the field of feed additives, more particularly relates to a compound micro-ecological preparation. The compound micro-ecological preparation contains probiotic bacteria, probiotics, saccharicterpenin and carriers according to the weight proportion of 1:1-2:0.1-1:1-10. The compound micro-ecological preparation realizes the optimally-effective proportioning of the probiotic bacteria, the probiotics and the saccharicterpenin, and the proportioning is reasonable and can fully give the synergy of the probiotic bacteria, the probiotics and the saccharicterpenin; the compound micro-ecological preparation can be taken as a substitute product of antibiotics while being used as a feed additive, eliminates drug residues and improves the quality of products, such as meat, eggs, milk, and the like; and the compound micro-ecological preparation can be also used for preventing and curing various animal diarrheas, improving immunity and disease resistance and reducing the death ratio of animals, can improve the feed conversion ratio and the animal production performance (increase the output of meat, eggs and milk), has better effects to livestock and poultry in all growth stages and is convenient for purifying barn environment and protecting and improving the ecological environment.

An apparatus is provided for monitoring a milking animal during milking of the animal. The apparatus includes a number of productivity sensors, each measuring at least one indicator of productivity of the animal. A number of temperature sensors, including at least two thermographic cameras, measure heat output from different processing areas of the milking animal. A processor receives the heat outputs and productivity indicators, and uses a combination of these to determine a condition of the milking animal. The condition is then indicated in real time at the monitoring apparatus.

The invention discloses an acidating agent for newborn piglet feed and preparation method thereof, relating to the feed additive field. The acidating agent is composed of the following raw materials by parts by weight: 40-55 parts of L-lactic acid, 20-25 parts of boletic acid, 2-4 parts of citric acid and 21-38 parts of auxiliary material, wherein the auxiliary material comprises the following components: 2-3% of dextrin, 7-8% of carboxymethyl cellulose cellulose sodium, the balance white carbon black; the raw materials added with water, mixing and spray granulation are carried out, so as to produce liquidity uniform granules. Pure organic acid composition is adopted, not only pH value of gastrointestinal tract can be reduced, but also sterilization anticorrosion can be realized, so as to regulate and control flora balance of gastrointestinal tract, thus being beneficial to breeding and growth of beneficial fungus such as lactic acid bacillus, inhibiting quantity of harmful fungus such as colibacillus and the like, improving animal anti-stress effect and improving animal immunity; and the acidating agent can directly participate in internal supersession, release energy, promote absorption of mineral substance, vitamin and nutritive material and improve animal production performance.

A system for generating optimized values for variable inputs to an animal production system. The system includes a simulator engine configured to receive a plurality of animal information inputs and generate a performance projection, wherein at least one of the animal information inputs is designated as a variable input and an enterprise supervisor engine configured to generate an optimized value for the at least one variable input based on at least one optimization criteria and an animal feed formulation.

The invention discloses a bio-enzyme and microorganism containing compound feed additive and a preparation process thereof, which solve the problems of high production cost and less viable count of beneficial microorganisms in the prior art. The bio-enzyme and microorganism containing compound feed additive is characterized in that the additive is prepared by compounding a viable organism preparation (prepared by carrying out liquid fermentation and low-temperature drying on bacillus subtilis and brewer's yeast) with an enzyme preparation (prepared by carrying out solid fermentation and drying on trichoderma reesei and Aspergillus niger); and the viable count of beneficial microorganisms in each gram of the product is greater than 8*10<9> cfu/g, the cellulase activity (refer to the quantity of cellulose degraded by each gram of the product per minute) is greater than 500 mg, the alpha-amylase activity (refer to the quantity of starch hydrolyzed by each gram of the product per minute) is greater than 3000 mg, and the protease activity (refer to the mount of an amino acid generated by caseins hydrolyzed by each gram of the product per minute) is greater than 400 mg. The bio-enzyme and microorganism containing compound feed additive disclosed by the invention has the advantages that: the feed utilization rate of livestock can be improved in a short term, the intestinal digestive flora of livestock is improved and balanced, the breeding cost is reduced, and the feed conversion rate and the animal production performance are improved; and meanwhile, the additive is simple in preparation process, low in production cost, and suitable for industrialized production.

The invention discloses a method for biodegrading mycotoxin in feed by using a mycotoxin degrading enzyme, and belongs to the field of feed resources. The method comprises the following steps: directly mixing degrading complex enzyme of aflatoxin, zearalenone and deoxynivalenol with moldy feed raw materials, concentrated feed or complete feed; and detoxifying the feed polluted by the mycotoxin to ensure that the degradation rate of the mycotoxin reaches over 80 percent. The method can effectively remove the mycotoxin from the feed, improves animal health and animal production performance, and can effectively solve the problem of feed resource shortage in China.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine for treating respiratory diseases and promoting growth for swine and a preparation method thereof. The traditional Chinese medicine is composed of plantain herb, herba patriniae, hindu datura flower, perilla leaf, trichosanthes kirilowii maxim and gelsmium elegans. The traditional Chinese medicine of the invention can effectively prevent and treat livestock respiratory diseases, such as swine enzootic pneumonia, infectious pleuropneumonia of swine, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), swine plague, swine influenza and thelike; meanwhile, the traditional Chinese medicine of the invention can improve animal productivity and promote animal growth. The traditional Chinese medicine of the invention has wide raw material resources, is safe and environmentally-friendly and has the advantages of simple preparation technology, low production cost and the like.

The invention discloses a polyphyly fat mixture for feeding animals, which is formed by mixing more than two greases. The mixture comprises long chain fatty acid and medium chain fatty acid, and the weight ratio of the long chain fatty acid to the medium chain fatty acid is 30-90:60-10. A microcapsule applying the polyphyly fat mixture for feeding animals comprises the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 25-80 percent of olyphyly fat mixture, 0.8-4 percent of complex emulsifying agent F, 0.8-4 percent of sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, 0.3-5 percent of sodium caseinate and 10-70 percent of encrusting substance. The polyphyly fat mixture accords with the growth performance of animals and ensures that the production performance of the animals can be fully expressed. Experiments prove that after feeding the polyphyly fat mixture, the fresh of piggies is improved by 3.96 compared with piggies fed with single derived fat feed. By adopting the fatty acid mode and fat products, after feeding nursing sows, the weight of weaning litter of the piggies is improved by 3.96 percent. After feeding the polyphyly fat mixture, the fresh of broiler chickens is improved by 3.96 percent compared with broiler chickens fed by single derived fat.

The invention provides traditional Chinese medicine pigeon feed capable of increasing the laying rate. The traditional Chinese medicine pigeon feed is prepared from pure grain feed and a traditional Chinese medicine additive; the pure grain feed is prepared from, by weight, 30-50 parts of corn, 8-12 parts of foxtail millet, 12-25 parts of wheat, 8-15 parts of sorghum and 22-28 parts of peas; the traditional Chinese medicine additive is prepared from, by weight, 8-15 parts of lycium barbarum, 2-8 parts of kochia scoparia, 6-13 parts of honeysuckle, 7-12 parts of fructus crataegi, 3-9 parts of herba epimedii, 5-12 parts of dandelion, 6-15 parts of radix acanthopanacis senticosi, 10-20 parts of radix astragali, 10-22 parts of cordate houttuynia, 5-15 parts of medicated leaven and 3-8 parts of codonopsis pilosula; the pure grain feed and the traditional Chinese medicine additive are proportioned according to the ratio of 100 to 0.5-1. According to the traditional Chinese medicine pigeon feed, the egg-laying pigeon feed additive is prepared from the purely natural Chinese herbal medicines, a pure grain feed formula is added, therefore, harm of chemical medicine to pigeons is avoided, and indirectly brought food safety problem is solved. The traditional Chinese medicine pigeon feed can greatly increase the survival rate of the pigeons, accelerate the growth of the pigeons, effectively improve the animal production performance, increase the laying rate and improve the egg quality.

The invention relates to a feed mycotoxin removing agent. The feed mycotoxin removing agent comprises the following components in mass percentage: 20-30% of nano-sized montmorillonite, 20-30% of yeast cell wall polysaccharide, 5-10% of glucose oxidase, 3-5% of potassium chloride, 3-5% of vitamin E, 4-5% of vitamin C, 15-20% of glucose and 8-10% of compound Chinese herbal extract powder, wherein the compound Chinese herbal extract powder is compounded by Astragalus extract, rhubarb extract, licorice extract and Eucommia extract powder in a mass ratio of 1: 0.8-1.2: 0.8-1.2: 0.8-1.2. The feed mycotoxin removing agent can effectively avoid damage of mycotoxin to production performance and reproductive performance of animals and has a wide application prospect.

The invention discloses an emulsified piglet pellet feed and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical fields of feeds and feed processing. The emulsified piglet pellet feed is mainly prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 40-50 parts of corn, 1-3 parts of imported meat and bone meal, 5-10 parts of barley, 5-10 parts of wheat bran, 5-10 parts of rice bran, 5-10 parts of flour, 10-16 parts of bean pulp, 1-5 parts of extruded soybean, 2-5 parts of palm meal, 1-3 parts of an alfalfa extract, 0.5-1 part of soybean oil, 0.015 part of Bredol683, 1 part of water, 0.2-0.7 part of 65% lysine sulphate, 0.01-0.03 part of DL-methionine, 0.03-0.05 part of complex enzyme, 0.3-0.4 part of multi-vitamin, 0.2-0.6 part of complex trace elements and 1-5 parts of a complex microbial inoculant. The emulsified piglet pellet feed is scientific in formula; the hardness of the feed can be improved; the diarrhea of young animals is reduced; and the animal production performance is improved.

The invention relates to a probiotic-astragalus polysaccharide composition for feeding commercial chicken, which is characterized by comprising the following active ingredients in percentage by mass: 0.3 to 0.6 percent of bacillus licheniformis dry powder, 0.1 to 0.6 percent of lactic acid bacteria dry powder, 0.1 to 0.6 percent of bacillus subtilis dry powder, 10 to 20 percent of astragalus polysaccharide, 20 to 80 percent of corn meal and 10 to 40 percent of soybean meal. Probiotics prepared through large-pot liquid fermentation and 40 DEG C reduced pressure drying technology are adopted in the invention, wherein the viable bacteria content of the probiotics is that: the content of the bacillus licheniformis dry powder is more than or equal to 1*108cfu/g, the content of the lactic acid bacteria dry powder is more than or equal to 1*1,011cfu/g, and the content of the bacillus subtilis dry powder is more than or equal to 1*1,011cfu/g. The composition belongs to an environmentally-friendly growth promoter, has the effects of improving the animal production performance, enhancing the body immunity, providing nutrition for bodies, reducing the harmful gas concentration of a hen house, and the like, and has obvious effect of improving the meat-increasing rate of the commercial chicken.

The invention provides a Chinese medicinical composition for piglets to prevent yellow-white dysentery and prepare method thereof, which comprises by weight parts of components: 5-15 parts by weight of ageratum; 10-20 parts by weight of Pulsatilla Chinensis; 10-20 parts by weight of Forsythia suspensa; 1-5 parts by weight of Sophora Flavescens Ait; 5-15 parts by weight of tangerine peel; 5-15 parts by weight of radix auckladiae; 15-40 parts by weight of hawthom carbon; 5-15 parts by weight of Caulis Akebiae; 10-20 parts by weight of Radix Puerariae; 5-15 parts by weight of Terminalia chebula Retz.; 1-15 parts by weight of Radix Glycyrrhiza; 1-5 parts by weight of Realgar; 20-50 parts by weight of talc. The invention uses advanced superfine comminution technique, griding Chinese medicinical material into powder in micrometer scale, the cell wall-broken rate of the plant cell is above 90%, effective ingredients are released sufficiently, medicine effect is increased, usage rate of the medicine is increased, the medicine cost for animal production is effectively reduced; the Chinese medicinical composition has no resistance and is green, safe, environment-protecting, the drug materials are easy to obtain, the prize is cheap, and is suitable for large-scale production and development.

The present invention discloses a strain of acid resistance and high temperature resistance saccharomyces cerevisiae and applications thereof. The saccharomyces cerevisiae is Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sa-10, and is preserved in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, and a preservation number is CGMCC No.6120. According to the present invention, after the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sa-10 is added to a basal diet of weaned piglets, daily feed intake and daily weight increase of weaned piglets can be significantly improved, and a diarrhea index can be reduced; and the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sa-10 provides important significance and broad application prospects in the field of animal feed additive preparation or animal production performance improvement.

The invention relates to a feed additive for promoting the growth of pigs and improving meat quality and a preparation method thereof, wherein the feed additive comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 15 to 30 percent of astragalus polyose, 5 to 10 percent of cassia seed, 10 to 30 percent of radix codonopsitis, 5 to 8 percent of atractylis ovata, 5 to 10 percent of liquorice, 2to 5 percent of garlicin, 7 to 12 percent of dried orange peel, 10 to 15 percent of tea, and 1 percent of vitamin. The feed additive mainly comprises Chinese medicinal herbal, tea and vitamin. The practice proves that: the additive containing the Chinese medicinal herbal, the tea and the like is used to substitute for antibiotics, which can improve the utilization rate of the feed, promote the growth of animals, prevent and cure diseases, and improve ecological environment. Immunologic active materials of the Chinese medicinal herbal in Chinese medical herbal preparations can strengthen the immune function of organisms, improve the anti-stress and anti-disease abilities of the animals, improve the production performance of the animals, have no (low) residue, and are difficult to produce the drug tolerance. By mixing and adding various components of the invention into the feed, the feed additive and the method can greatly improve the growth speed of the pigs, remarkably promote the meat quality and the yield, and have good economic value and social value.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for use in inducing tumor-specific antibody mediated complement-dependent cytotoxic response in an animal having a tumor comprising administering to said animal a composition comprising a replication competent oncolytic virus wherein administration of the composition induces in the animal production of antibodies that mediate a CDC response specific to said tumor.

A nutritive composite licking brick containing minerals for the ruminant is proportionally prepared from calcium hydrogen phosphate Zn, Cu, I, Se, Co, edible salt, urea, solidifying agent and adhesive. Its preparing process is also disclosed.

The invention provides a microecological preparation with bacillus subtilis fermenting astragalus membranaceus and an application thereof, wherein the microecological preparation is prepared through fermentation by means of a bacillus subtilis strain FM537 on a fermentation substrate containing astragalus membranaceus water extract liquid. The fermentation substrate comprises 15 g/L of tryptone, 15 g/L of glucose, 50 g/L of beef extract, 0.5 g/L of ammonium sulfate, 1 g/L of sodium chloride and 0.5 g/L of sodium dihydrogen phosphate. The fermentation substrate is prepared with distilled water, wherein pH is regulated to 7.2, and then according to volume ratio, 45-50% of the astragalus membranaceus water extract liquid is added, and finally high-pressure sterilization is carried out to produce the fermentation substrate. Through ultrasonic wave for assisting water extraction of the astragalus membranaceus, the extraction time is greatly reduced. Through selection of suitable fermentation temperature and fermentation time, synergistic effect of the astragalus membranaceus and the bacillus subtilis is improved. The microecological preparation is used as a livestock and poultry feed additive, and can improve animal production performance, digestion rate and body immunity.