14 results about "Animal welfare" patented technology

This invention relates to the fields of animal behavior, animal welfare, and mental health conditioning, specifically a music conditioning system and method for pets and laboratory animals. It is a pure PC-based software system, including an audio editing and playback control module, a music library management module, and a music playback module. The output of the audio editing and playback control module is connected to the input of the music playback module, and the music library management module and the audio editing and playback control module have a bidirectional data connection. This invention precisely matches different animals through three parameters: pitch shifting, speed adjustment, and volume adjustment, significantly improving audio compatibility. The effects of emotional stabilization, anxiety relief, and sleep promotion are significantly better than general music. One-click templates are suitable for quick home use. Customizable visual editing is suitable for pet hospitals, laboratory animal centers, and research institutions to establish standardized programs. Waveform graphs, spectrograms, and acoustic spectrograms are displayed synchronously in real time, allowing users to intuitively judge the audio structure. Adjustment accuracy is improved by more than 80%, requiring no professional audio knowledge.

The application provides a beef full-chain traceability and quality evaluation method and system based on identification sensing, relates to the technical field of intelligent breeding and food quality traceability, and solves the technical problem that the existing technology cannot realize multi-source data fusion analysis and cross-stage quality mapping in the whole breeding process. The method specifically comprises: acquiring multi-source data of cattle; judging the behavior state of the cattle by calculating the activity intensity feature based on the behavior data; estimating the core temperature of the cattle based on the body surface temperature, activity intensity feature and temperature and humidity; calculating the animal welfare index based on the core temperature, activity intensity feature and environmental data; obtaining the fat content and protein content of the beef sample through Raman spectrum detection, and constructing the mapping relationship between the animal welfare index and the fat content and protein content; obtaining the meat quality evaluation index by weighted summation of the fat content and protein content, generating beef product full-link traceability information and visualizing the information. The application is used for beef quality traceability.

This invention discloses a method and system for alleviating livestock and poultry stress based on olfactory-tactile synergy, belonging to the field of smart farming technology. The method includes: collecting livestock and poultry behavior, sound, physiological, and thermal imaging data through multimodal sensors to extract multidimensional feature vectors; calculating a comprehensive stress score and determining the stress level using a multivariate state estimation model; generating an olfactory-tactile synergistic intervention strategy based on a large language model combined with current state and historical data; evaluating the effect in real time after intervention using a temporal deep learning model, and dynamically adjusting the strategy based on feedback until stress is alleviated. This invention solves the problems of existing stress intervention methods being singular and having limited effectiveness, achieving multimodal stress identification, intelligent collaborative decision-making, and closed-loop adaptive intervention, significantly improving the accuracy, timeliness, and animal welfare level of stress relief.

This invention discloses a method for predicting sow farrowing using vulvar physiological temporal representation and prototype correction, belonging to the field of intelligent pig farming. The implementation steps are as follows: Collect vulvar image data of the sow standing from 7 days before the expected farrowing date to the day of farrowing and preprocess the data; train the segmentation model YOLOv8 to obtain a vulvar segmentation mask; design a feature extraction network to extract vulvar physiological representations; construct vulvar physiological temporal representation variables using these representations; input the representation variables into a classification network, and predict farrowing based on the classification results. This invention utilizes computer vision technology to segment and extract features from the sow vulva in a low-cost, contactless manner for farrowing prediction. This facilitates timely and accurate monitoring of the sow's farrowing status by farmers, reduces reliance on manual observation, meets the requirements of animal welfare and precision livestock farming, and lays the foundation for research on farrowing prediction based on the physiological representation of the sow vulva.

A mouse toy used in a rodent cage, relates to the technical field of barrier environment experimental animals, comprising a pipe body, sleeves are arranged on both sides of the pipe body to meet the biting habit of mice, a portable dismounting mechanism is arranged between the pipe body and the sleeve for plug-in fixing of the pipe body and the sleeve, an escape channel is arranged in the pipe body for back-and-forth shuttling movement of the mouse, an access channel is arranged in the sleeve and communicates with the escape channel, the scheme not only improves the animal welfare of rodents in the daily feeding process, but also maximizes the reduction of investment, cost reduction and efficiency increase.

The utility model provides a kind of rat weight-bearing climbing ladder resistance training device. The rat weight-bearing climbing ladder resistance training device includes bottom plate, the top of the bottom plate is fixedly installed with support column, the top of the support column is fixedly installed with cave-like cover, the outside of the cave-like cover is equipped with multiple bionic caves, the bottom of the cave-like cover is hingedly connected with multiple climbing ladders, the bottom of the climbing ladder is hingedly connected with placing plate, the placing plate is fixedly installed with vertical guide tube, the vertical guide tube is slidably installed with slide rod. The rat weight-bearing climbing ladder resistance training device provided by the utility model has the advantages of structural innovation and functional optimization, ensuring the reliability of scientific research data, while considering the convenience of operation and animal welfare requirements. The modular design concept reserves space for subsequent function expansion, and the standardized training environment provides professional tools for research in the fields of exercise physiology and neuroscience, with wide application prospects and scientific research value.

This utility model relates to a bird control device for herbivorous birds in river and lake ecological restoration areas, comprising a boundary bird-proof cover net and a bird-proof vertical net. The boundary bird-proof cover net is continuously laid along the boundary of the ecological restoration area, with a width of 10-50m. The net surface curves upward from one end near the boundary of the ecological restoration area towards the center of the ecological restoration area, forming an angle of 30±5° with the water surface. The net surface has a diamond-shaped mesh of 3cm-10cm and a light transmittance of ≥85%. The lowest point of the boundary bird-proof cover net is 10-20cm above the water surface. The bird-proof vertical net is set within the area enclosed by the boundary bird-proof cover net, and includes several net bodies with their surfaces perpendicular to the water surface. The upper end of the net body is 0.5-1.5m above the water surface, and the lower end of the net body is 0-30cm above the water surface. The total length of the bird-proof vertical net extending parallel to the water surface is 150-300m / hm. 2 This invention effectively controls the grazing of herbivorous birds while maintaining the water's light transmittance and ecological connectivity. It does not actively harm birds, is more in line with environmental protection and animal welfare principles, does not affect the growth of aquatic plants in shallow water areas, and meets the needs of long-term management.

The utility model discloses an animal head fixing device, including head fixed frame, the front side of head fixed frame is provided with the flared medicine pouring subassembly, head fixed frame includes the U-shaped handle, the servo motor of fixed in the U-shaped handle rear end face to the guide rod of traversing U-shaped handle front end. Compared with the past hand fixing mode, the present fixing device avoids the direct contact between the personnel and the animal, the operator does not need to close contact with the potentially aggressive animal, and the risk of being bitten by the animal is effectively reduced. Moreover, the present fixing device adopts the side plate and the mouth opener design, which can realize stable fixation without causing harm to the animal's oral cavity, avoid the damage of the animal's oral mucosa and the loosening of the teeth, and is beneficial to the maintenance of the animal's health, the accuracy and reliability of the experimental data, and the animal welfare principle.

This invention relates to the field of cow face recognition technology and discloses a fine-grained cow face recognition method based on multi-view triplets, comprising the following steps: S1: Cow face multi-view data acquisition, acquiring three-view image data of the left, front, and right sides of each cow through an image acquisition device; S2: Data preprocessing and triplet construction, using a view prediction model to classify the cow face images by view, and constructing triplet samples from the left, front, and right three-view images of the same cow; S3: Constructing a fine-grained cow face triplet recognition model based on hierarchical receptive fields. This invention can complete the non-invasive acquisition of multi-view cow face videos through a common mobile phone APP, fundamentally avoiding animal stress and potential harm caused by the installation of traditional ear tags or RFID tags, significantly improving animal welfare, and greatly reducing hardware deployment and maintenance costs, making it more suitable for widespread application in large-scale farms.

The application discloses application of an InDel molecular marker related to overgrowth of a hoof on a pig chromosome 7, wherein the site of the InDel molecular marker is rs712521922, and the genotype is ATGT / ATGT, ATGT / A or A / A. By means of the InDel molecular marker, the frequency of a protective allele (ATGT) of the InDel molecular marker can be improved generation by generation in a breeding process through molecular marker assisted selection, the incidence of overgrowth of a hoof of a pig can be effectively reduced, the service life of a breeding sow is prolonged, and the economic benefit and the animal welfare level of pig breeding are remarkably improved.

The application provides a feeding parameter self-adaptive regulation method based on the growth stage of a chicken group. The application synchronously acquires growth-related parameters and multi-dimensional environmental parameters of the chicken group, combines the group average empty stomach weight and the daily feed intake per unit weight to calculate a virtual physiological age and generate a target environmental dynamic reference, fuses environmental deviation and behavior distribution deviation to construct a total deviation of comfort, and adopts dynamic damping adjustment to obtain a smooth control instruction. The application can self-adaptively regulate the feeding environment according to the real growth stage of the chicken group, improve the breeding environment control precision and animal welfare, avoid frequent shaking start and stop of the equipment, prolong the service life of the equipment, reduce energy consumption, and realize intelligent, refined, stable and efficient automatic breeding.

The utility model discloses a kind of breeding and breeding device of meat rabbits, it is related to meat rabbit breeding and breeding technical field, including cage body, cage body is welded by a plurality of arranged bar, and the bottom end rotationally connected with partition mechanism in cage body interior.This utility model effectively solves the space waste problem caused by traditional breeding cage breeding room idling through flexible partition mechanism and space design, significantly improves the breeding efficiency and animal welfare, the baffle of partition mechanism can be switched freely between vertical (partition state) and horizontal (open state), when female rabbit is in gestation period, baffle vertical placement divides cage into breeding room and breeding room, through-hole opening is convenient for female rabbit to enter breeding room, to provide independent quiet gestation environment for it, improve the survival rate of baby rabbit, when non-gestation period, baffle horizontal placement makes complete activity space in cage, eliminate partition limit, expand female rabbit exercise amount, it is beneficial to keep good physique, improve reproductive performance and meat quality.