77 results about "Dairy heifer" patented technology

A feed wagon for feeding animals such as cows comprises an autonomous vehicle, a container for containing feed, wherein the container has at least one aperture for filling and emptying the container, and a connection between the autonomous vehicle and the container. The container is substantially cylindrical and rotatable about its axial axis, the container having an operative position for receiving and/or mixing feed and an unloading position for unloading the feed. The connection between the autonomous vehicle and the container comprises a tilt axis, the cylindrical container being tiltable about the tilt axis between the operative position and the unloading position relative to the autonomous vehicle. The invention further comprises a system for feeding animals such as cows, comprising such a feed wagon.

The invention is based on the discovery that certain variants of β-casein may induce Type-1 diabetes in susceptible individuals while other variants do not. The invention consists of the selection of non-diabetogenic milk producing cows and recovering and processing their milk and milk products. Another aspect of the invention is selectively breeding cows which produce the non-diabetogenic milk.

The invention discloses a dairy cow house sterilizer for livestock breeding. Two rows of stand columns are each correspondingly connected with a supporting transverse rod. The dairy cow house sterilizer is characterized in that the two rows of the stand columns are each correspondingly connected with a supporting sliding rod, each supporting sliding rod is correspondingly connected with a sliding rail, each sliding rail is connected with a slider, each slider is connected with a sterilizer body, each slider comprises a drive gear driven by a motor, each drive gear is correspondingly meshed with a rack arranged on the corresponding sliding rail, each sterilizer body is internally provided with a medicine chest and a medicine spraying pump correspondingly communicated with the medicine chest, and the sterilizer body is further provided with a shower nozzle correspondingly communicated with the corresponding medicine spraying pump. By means of the dairy cow house sterilizer, the motors can drive drive-pulleys to rotate so that the sliders can be driven to slide on the sliding rails, accordingly the sterilizers can be driven to slide, the sterilizer bodies can be utilized to conduct sterilization on a cow house, and thus the medicine spraying effect is further improved.

An implement for keeping dairy animals, provided with a first and a second production unit and with a care unit having a plurality of subunits, wherein each production unit is provided with at least one accommodation area for a production group, which comprises a group of lactating dairy animals, and with a milking implement for milking the production group, wherein the subunits of the care unit at least include a calving unit for separately accommodating dairy animals in a calving period, and a milking implement for milking newly calved dairy animals, and an infirmary unit for separately accommodating sick animals, and wherein the care unit forms a connection between the production units. There is thus provided a compact disposition, comprising efficient and short distances, for dairy animals requiring care.

A milk or other dairy product, capable of minimizing the onset of disease such as coronary heart disease or enhancing the immune response is derived from animals which are substantially free of the β-casein A¹ allele. Bulk milk can be produced by testing for and culling cows who test positive for the β-casein A¹ allele, or by producing immunoglobulins and other immune response proteins, in cow's milk from animals not possessing the β-casein A¹ allele, or other commercial milk producing animals, to this allele, to counteract the immnunosuppressant substances present that are produced from it, in commercial milking cows such as Holsteins, together with its blending with non-treated milk or the recovery of such immunoproteins.

A dairy cattle feed additive and a breeding method for dairy cattle in an early perinatal period are provided. The additive comprises 1.6-2.6 wt% of rumen-protected choline, 1.4-2.6 wt% of rumen-protected methionine, 30-80 wt% of rumen-protected glucose, 1-2.6 wt% of selenium yeast, 0.4-1.6 wt% of astragalus polysaccharide, 1-2.2 wt% of sodium humate, 2-6 wt% of antibacterial peptide, 1-2.2 wt% of nicotinic acid, 1-2.2 wt% of ammonium chloride and 20-60 wt% of a carrier. The breeding method for the dairy cattle in the early perinatal period through adopting the dairy cattle feed additive is also disclosed. The additive can be directly fed to the dairy cattle and is suitable for the dairy cattle in the early perinatal period. The additive is capable of reducing postpartum energy negative balance for the dairy cattle, increasing dry matter intake and the milk yield of the dairy cattle, promoting dairy cattle health, reducing dairy cattle postpartum diseases and reducing the dairy cattle postpartum elimination rate, and has popularization and using value.

A system for managing a group of dairy animals to be milked fully automatically, where the dairy animals go through a lactation cycle comprising phases of calving, inmilking, producing milk, and being dry. The system includes a computer executing program instructions for recording information and processing data indicating a division of the group of dairy animals into subgroups of a plurality of dairy animals, an insemination period determined per subgroup within which the dairy animals of the subgroup concerned are to be inseminated, which insemination period is so short that substantially all dairy animals in the subgroup concerned go simultaneously through the lactation cycle, and a separation of pregnant dairy animals of at least one of the subgroups in a separate area, around the beginning of the being dry phase of the subgroup concerned. The system also includes at least one milking robot for automatically milking the dairy animals, operatively connected to the computer for receiving first instructions from the computer for milking the dairy animals in the non-separated subgroups, and second instructions from the computer for milking the dairy animals in the separated subgroup in the separate area.

The invention relates to the field of agricultural and pastoral breeding equipment, in particular to automatic dairy cattle bathing equipment. The automatic dairy cattle bathing equipment comprises an expansion plate attached and mounted to a wall, wherein a top plate perpendicular to the expansion plate is arranged at the top of the expansion plate, a chute is arranged on the top plate, a vertical connecting shaft is glidingly connected in the chute, a cylinder acting on the connecting shaft is arranged at one end of the chute, a spring is arranged at the other end of the chute and connected with the connecting shaft, a mounting frame is arranged at the bottom of the connecting shaft, an n-shaped washing brush is arranged at the bottom of the mounting frame, the connecting shaft is connected with the part right above the washing brush, and bristles are arranged on the inner side of the washing brush; water inlet pipes are further arranged on the mounting frame. The automatic dairy cattle bathing equipment has the benefits as follows: the connecting shaft slides back and forth in the chute, so that the washing brush and the water inlet pipes reciprocate on cattle back, automatic dairy cattle bathing work is finished, the operation can be finished automatically by the equipment, time and labor are saved, the efficiency is high, brushing can be performed during flushing, and the dairy cattle are cleaned up.

The invention provides a system and method of milking and feeding a dairy animal, wherein feed is dispensed in portions during the milking. At a predetermined moment the portion size is reduced, in order to increase the chance that the animal has actually eaten the last allocated portion at the moment when the milking has been ended, so that it will not hesitate to leave the milking parlour. This will result in a reduction of the time during which the milking parlour is unnecessarily occupied, and in an enhanced efficiency.

The invention discloses a method for building a dairy cattle breast acinus lactation model in vitro, and relates to a method for building a lactation model in vitro. The method solves the problem of low authenticity of in-vivo environment caused by taking a mammary epithelial cell as a research carrier in the existing in-vitro study of the lactation function of the dairy cattle breast. The method comprises the following steps: 1, preparing a tissue culture plate of matrix gel; 2, digesting primary cultured dairy cattle mammary epithelial cell gestated for 4 months by adopting pancreatin and EDTA, and collecting cells after centrifugalization; 3, preparing cell suspension and diluting; and 4, adding the cell suspension into the tissue culture plate of the matrix gel, culturing for 15 days in an incubator to finish the building. The artificial building process of the dairy cattle breast acinus lactation model built by the invention is a simulation process of in-vitro simulation of a galactemia protective screen; and a three-dimensional acinus structure thereof can truly simulate in-vivo situation, has the same lactation function and biological characteristics as the breast acinus in a ruminant, and has high authenticity of in-vivo environment simulation.

A milking system for milking a herd of dairy animals includes a first milking device and a second milking device, an identification device for identifying dairy animals to be milked of a herd of dairy animals, and a control device for determining an estimated treatment time of each dairy animal to be milked. The control device also classifies each dairy animal to be milked with the aid of a criterion on the basis of the estimated treatment time in at least a first or second group of dairy animals. The milking system admits the first group of dairy animals to preferably only the first milking device and admits the second group to preferably only the second milking device.

The invention relates to a dairy cow ecological breeding model with the combination of farming and animal husbandry. By utilizing the combination of the breeding of dairy cows and the planting of red grapes, manure generated from a dairy cow farm is fermented into an organic rotten fertilizer in a methane tank and is applied to soil in three periods, namely a red grape spring sprout swelling period, a young fruit growth period and a harvested period, by an irrigation type fertilizing method. A composite ecologic system combines the breeding of the dairy cows and the planting of the red grapes, and the manure generated by the breeding of the dairy cows is digested by the red grape yard, thus a problem of environmental pollution caused by the breeding of the dairy cows can be completely solved, and the recycle of the nutrients can be realized. The investment of the fertilizer is reduced due to the investment of the organic fertilizer, the physicochemical property of the soil can be improved, the fertility of soil is improved, the production cost is reduced, and the economic benefits are improved; and the produced fruits has good mouthfeel and excellent quality and qualified pollution-free red grapes can be provided for the market.

The invention discloses a dairy cow auxiliary milking device for livestock breeding. The device comprises a moving trolley, a support body and a top block, the support body is fixedly arranged on a top surface of the moving trolley, the top block is fixedly arranged on a right side surface of the support body, two lifting cavities with right openings are arranged in the support body, a lifting block is arranged on the inner wall of the lifting cavity at the lower side in a vertically sliding manner, a square block is arranged on the inner wall of the lifting cavity at the upper side in a vertically sliding manner, a lifting mechanism capable of simultaneously controlling the relative sliding of the lifting block and the square block is arranged in the lifting cavity. The milking device disclosed by the invention can be used for the milk sucking process of dairy cows and has full automation effect, the cost can be effectively reduced, and the multi-direction adjusting can be performed;a breast pump and milk cow can fit closely, the collected milk can be stored at low temperature to prevent the milk from going bad, the back of the milk cow can be massaged while sucking the milk, andthe conflict mode of the milk cow is reduced.

The invention discloses a preparation method of heterogeneous in-vitro fertilization embryos of cows and cattle. The preparation method includes that cow ovaries abandoned in a slaughter house are adopted and subjected to gradient washing through normal saline in a temperature increasing type, oocytes are extracted for in-vitro maturation, and high-quality in-vitro matured oocytes are obtained; high-yield cow sperms are unfreezed and placed into a fertilization medium to be gently patted through a pipette, the cow sperms float in an incubator after overturning up and down for several times, in-vitro fertilization is performed, and the in-vitro fertilization embryos of the cows and the cattle are prepared. The oocytes are obtained through the ovaries abandoned in the slaughter house, so that utilization rate of cow resources is increased; through improvement of technical details, good effect is achieved; utilization of good male herbs can be greatly increased, the good male herbs can obtain a great deal of offspring, and function of the preparation method in genetic modification of herbs is expanded.

The invention aims to provide palm oil coated rumen-protected lysine feed for the lactation period of dairy cows. The feed comprises components in percentage by mass as follows: 10% of lecithin, 20% of palm oil and 70% of lysine. The palm oil coated rumen-protected lysine is used for producing feed for the lactation period of dairy cows. The rumen protection efficiency of the palm oil coated rumen-protected lysine can reach 98%, the particle size is smaller than 0.80 mm, and the dissolution rate of lysine in small intestines can reach 98%. Fat considers comprehensive demands of dairy cows forvarious fatty acids, and the problems of low milk protein content and metabolic disorder and the like caused by lack of lysine in the lactation period of dairy cows.

Nucleic acid molecules comprising a SNP site at position 1296 of bovine uterine milk protein (UTMP) coding sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1), which SNP indicates a desirable productive life in a dairy cattle. Also disclosed are an array or a kit comprising the same, a method for detecting the SNPs, a method for progeny testing of cattle, and a method for selectively breeding of cattle.

The invention discloses a feed additive for dairy cows at the earlier perinatal stage, and belongs to the field of feed additives. The feed additive for dairy cows at the earlier perinatal stage is formed by combining anion salt and/or traditional Chinese medicine additives in the mass ratio of (90-100):(5-10). The anion salt is added into daily ration of dairy cows at the earlier perinatal stage so as to reduce the dry matter intake; the traditional Chinese medicines are added so as to increase the appetite of dairy cows at the perinatal stage, thereby improving the dry matter intake. By the mixing and adding of the anion salt and the traditional Chinese medicine additives, the dry matter intake of dairy cows is nearly not different from that of a control group, and thus the palatability problem of the anion salt is relieved to a certain extent.

The invention provides a novel feed for feeding milk cows and a feeding method of milk cows. Biogas slurry is used as a feed additive and is mixed into concentrated feed for feeding the milk cows, after the biogas slurry is taken out from a methane tank, solid matters in the biogas slurry are removed through precipitation, the precipitated biogas slurry is filtered by gauze, and the filter liquid is placed for 2 to 3 hours. In the adult cow breeding stage, the cows are fed for three times in each day, and 0.5 percent to 0.6 percent of biogas slurry is added into the concentrated feed fed in each time and is uniformly stirred to be supplied to the milk cows to eat; in the milk production stage, the cows are fed for three times in each day, and 1 percent to 2 percent of biogas slurry is added into the concentrated feed fed in each time and is uniformly stirred to be supplied to the milk cows to eat; in during the milk cow empathema and pregnancy periods, the concentrated feed mixed with the biogas slurry cannot be fed for the milk cows. The novel feed and the feeding method have the advantages that the biogas slurry is used as the feed additive and is mixed into the concentrated feed of the milk cows, amino acid, vitamins and the like necessary for the milk cow growth and rich mineral substances and protein contained in the biogas slurry are utilized, the milk cow growth is promoted, the immunity of the milk cows is improved, the milk yield is improved, and the goal of increasing the economic income is reached.

The invention relates to the technical field of cow breeding, in particular to a cultivation method for increasing the lactation period cow milk yield. The method comprises the steps of determining acow milk lactation stage of the lactation period, and feeding cows with feed of different ratios according to the lactation stage; feeding the cows one time every morning, noon and evening and two times at night, and providing enough drinking water for the cows in the lactation period; milking the cows in the lactation period at the time of 9:30-10:30 and the time of 15:30-16:30 every day, and scrubbing and massaging the breasts of the cows before milking; playing relaxed and soothing music for the cows in the lactation period every 9-11 o'clock and every 15-17 o'clock; enabling the cows in the lactation period to freely walk for 3-4 km every 14-18 o'clock. The method is simple and easy to implement, and the lactation period cow milk yield can be greatly increased.

The invention relates to the technical field of fermentation padding, and discloses fermentation padding for a dairy cattle bed. The fermentation padding is characterized by being prepared from eucalyptus barks and a fermentation agent according to the weight ratio of 1000:(1-2). A preparation method of the fermentation padding comprises the following steps that (1) the eucalyptus barks are driedand cut into sections, the length of each section is smaller than 40 cm, mechanical kneading is conducted, the width of the kneaded eucalyptus barks is 1-10 cm, dust is removed, and the eucalyptus barks are put aside for use; (2) the kneaded eucalyptus barks are mixed with the fermentation agent, 0.2-0.5 kg of corn steep liquor is added per square meter, even mixing is conducted to obtain a mixture, and then the evenly-mixed mixture is evenly laid in a cattle shed; the fermentation padding is obtained. The fermentation padding has the advantages that the odor and pathogenic bacteria are effectively removed, and the padding is not easily sunken, is comfortable and has certain elasticity.

The invention discloses application of lactic acid bacteria in modulating silage and preventing dairy cow mastitis. The lactic acid bacteria are lactobacillus acidophilus. The lactobacillus acidophilus is used as a silage additive to improve the quality of the silage, and the lactobacillus acidophilus has an effect of enhancing immunity and can be used for preventing the occurrence of dairy cow mastitis and other diseases.

A powder composition for the post-milking teat disinfection of dairy animals is described. In particular, said composition has proven to be advantageously effective as bactericidal agent, while without causing irritation or reddening of the skin.

The invention relates to a method of milking a group of dairy animals including a first subgroup and a second subgroup by an automatic milking system, and wherein the milking system is flushed after a dairy animal from the second subgroup has been milked. The flushing step is postponed after a dairy animal from the second subgroup has been milked until at least a minimum number greater than or equal to two dairy animals from the second subgroup has been milked successively, or a subsequent dairy animal belonging to the first subgroup has been identified and the decision has been made that the dairy animal from the first subgroup presenting itself can be milked, or by postponing the milking of a dairy animal from the second subgroup until at least a minimum number greater than or equal to two dairy animals from the first subgroup has been milked successively.

The invention relates to the field of auxiliary devices in dairy cattle raising technology, and particularly relates to a dairy cattle raising manger. The dairy cattle raising manger comprises a manger as well as a storage tank for storing feed, wherein a discharge outlet is formed in the lower part of one side of the storage tank, a chute is formed in the wall above the discharge outlet, the chute is internally sheathed with an insertion plate in a clamping manner, an L-shaped dialing strip is fixedly connected with the outer side of the insertion plate facing toward the storage tank, racks are arranged on the outer side of the L-shaped dialing strip, a rotatable dialing disc is arranged beside the racks, dialing teeth capable of dialing racks are arranged on the outer circumference of the dialing disc fixedly, the discharge outlet is fixedly connected with a blanking pipe, a collection trough is arranged below the blanking pipe, the outer end of the collection trough is downward sunken, the collection trough is connected with a supporting rod in a rotating manner, a torsion spring is sheathed on the supporting rod in an emptying manner, one end of the torsion spring is connected with the collection trough, the other end of the torsion spring is connected onto a wall, and the manger is arranged below the collection trough. The dairy cattle raising manger can turn when the collection trough has a certain weight, feed can be poured into the manger for quantitative feeding, and the collection trough can achieve the turning weight after a certain time and then perform timed feeding.

The invention discloses application of grass-cultivated ganoderma lucidum dreg in dairy cattle feeding, and belongs to a recycling method of waste in the edible fungus industry. The feed comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 4 percent of ganoderma lucidum dreg, and 96 percent of dairy cow ration. Aired and crushed ganoderma lucidum dreg and the dairy cow ration are uniformly mixed to feed dairy cows, and the feeding management is carried out according to a conventional method. The feed has the advantages of rich nutrition, simple process, low price and the like, has bioactivity and functions similar to ganoderma lucidum mycelia polysaccharides because most crude polysaccharide is grass-cultivated ganoderma lucidum mycelia polysaccharides, and can be used for feeding dairy cow to replace partial antibiotics, so that the health of dairy cow is facilitated; and the grass-cultivated ganoderma lucidum dreg is used to replace the feed which has similar nutrition content and higher price, such as beet pulp, bran and the like, the feed cost can be reduced, and the economical benefit can be increased. According to the grass-cultivated ganoderma lucidum dreg feed for dairy cow feeding, the main immunity component IgG (immunoglobulin G) content of milk can be increased, and the milk quality can be promoted.

The invention discloses a cleaning device for preventing peripartum endometritis in dairy cows, which comprises a bottom frame, a first motor is fixedly connected to the right side of the bottom of the inner wall of the bottom frame, and a motor is fixed between the top and the bottom of the inner wall of the bottom frame. And the left side of the first motor is fixedly connected with a baffle, one end of the output shaft of the first motor passes through the baffle and extends to the left side of the baffle, and the end of the output shaft of the first motor on the left side of the baffle is fixedly connected with a wire The rod relates to the technical field of dairy cow breeding devices. The cleaning device for the prevention of peripartum endometritis in dairy cows achieves the purpose of adjusting the height of the device, which is convenient for the device to adapt to dairy cows of different heights, and is convenient for workers to use, making the application range of the device wider and increasing the cleaning effect. And there is no need for manual reciprocating washing, which reduces the burden on workers, ensures the completeness of cleaning, avoids missed washing, prevents cows from getting sick, reduces the workload of workers, and better protects cows.