984 results about "Draft animals" patented technology

A portable livestock incubating device is provided formed of a rectangular container having and incubating volume forming an incubating chamber defined by the zone within the incubating volume. Each each end wall further includes an access door hingedly attached to an upper portion above a clean out door for providing ingress and egress of livestock. Each access door has an exhaust vent located at an upper portion whereby heated air, generated via an electric heater within said the incubating chamber exhausts therethrough. A base with wheels mounted thereon for facilitating transportation of the portable livestock incubating device.

The invention relates to a livestock carcass skin marking device, which includes a tagging unit and a code-spurting unit. The tagging unit reads the livestock skin marking data stored locally or on aserver and generates a corresponding jet printing image. The code-spurting unit includes an ink nozzle, which jets the jet printing image to the livestock carcass skin. By adopting the technical scheme, code-spurting on livestock carcass skin, especially on live pig carcass skin can be carried out automatically, the code-spurting content can be customizable dynamically, the code-spurting process is fast, the code-spurting image is eye-catching, and the whole equipment cost is low. As two-dimensional codes can be jet printed, the livestock carcass circulation can be completely traceable, and the food safety can be guaranteed.

The invention relates to a satellite location technique, which aims at solving the defect of high management difficulty which is caused by few herdsmen and huge herds and the defect of grass resource destroy which is caused by over grazing in the prior art, and provides a fixed-point grazing method which comprises the following steps: S1, a GPS signal is received in real time and current position information is generated; S2, whether the current position is located in a predefined graze region is determined, if no, an alarming indication is sent out. The invention further provides a fixed-point grazing device in which the method is applied. The technical proposal of the invention has the advantages that: by setting the position information of graze regions in the fixed-point grazing device and combining with the GPS location information, livestock can be automatically limited in a predefined graze region, which not only saves the labor required for grazing and simplifies herd management, but also effectively avoids the grass resource destroy which is caused by over-grazing by simply modifying the graze region information to change different graze regions.

A system for weighing a plurality of quadruped animals is for use in a pen confining the animals. The pen has at least first and second segregated spaces with a first one-way chute allowing animal passage from the second space to the first space. A weighing station is located within a passage having an entrance and an exit, and that allows animal passage from the first area to the second area. The weighing station includes a weighing platform within the passage over which an animal must pass when passing from the first to the second space. The weighing platform has inlet and exit scales that support the weighing platform adjacent to inlet and exit ends thereof, and provides inlet and exit weight signals. A controller receives the inlet and exit weight signals and uses them in an iterative process to determine the presence of a single animal on the weighing platform. Once that determination is made, the sum of the inlet and exit weight values is very likely to accurately provide the animal weight. The controller may also use the inlet and exit weight signals to control closing of an inlet gate to bar more than one animal at a time from the weighing platform. An animal sorting system can easily incorporate this weighing system to provide more accurate sorting.

An agricultural data collection framework is provided in a system and method for tracking and managing livestock, and for analyzing animal conditions such as health, growth, nutrition, and behavior. The framework uses ultra-high frequency interrogation of RFID tags to collect individual animal data across multiple geographical locations, and incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to develop machine learning base models for statistical process controls around each animal for evaluating the animal condition. The framework provides a determination of normality at an individual animal basis or for a specific location, and generates alerts, predictions, and a targeted processing or application schedule for prioritizing and delivering resources when intervention is needed.

There is disclosed an improved shock absorbing, light-weight, thermally insulative orthotic pad designed for use in a pad and boot assembly for hoofed livestock. The pad is comprised of a mixture of flexible spheroids and elastomeric materials. In a preferred embodiment, elastomeric material generally is more concentrated at the top portion of the pad, and spheroids dispersed in a matrix of elastomeric material concentrated at the bottom section of the pad. The spheroids have a lower density than the elastomeric materials and possess better thermally insulative properties, and in a particularly preferred embodiment, at least some of the spheroids are comprised of closed-cell polypropylene foam. A method of making the light weight pad is also disclosed

The invention includes a location tracking device in an RFID environment, a system and method for tracking tag objects. Preferred embodiments include location tracking for livestock and a system and method for categorizing animal health. The location tracking device is an active or passive RFID device having a low power, long range transceiver for tracking the location and movement of the tag animal. The RFID device further includes a temperature reader circuit that induces an activation voltage on an inductive coupled temperature sensor having an LC circuit. The activation voltage is selectively cycled on and off to measure the decay of the LC circuit by its resonant frequency. Changes in capacitance of the LC circuit are converted to temperature readings thereby providing temperature monitoring of the animal. The system and method includes logic in the form of predetermined movement categories which indicate whether an animal may be potentially sick or healthy. The movement categories include frequency of movement and distances traveled by a monitored animal.

The invention discloses an automatic livestock phenotypic body size data measuring method based on three-dimensional point cloud, and the method comprises the following steps: obtaining different local point clouds of livestock, and fusing a plurality of local point clouds into a global point cloud; fitting a central axis plane for the point cloud above the livestock to obtain a ridge contour lineof the livestock, positioning a body length starting point and a body length ending point of the livestock on the ridge contour line, and performing integration to obtain the body surface length of the livestock; acquiring ground plane point cloud data according to the ridge contour line of the livestock, performing least square fitting on the plane to obtain a ground plane equation, and solvingthe body height of the livestock; projecting the upper point cloud of the livestock to an XOY plane to obtain a discrete curve graph of point cloud number distribution, finding out the position of thechest width in the discrete curve graph, and further solving the chest width length of the livestock; selecting a slice of a to-be-measured girth, establishing a polar coordinate system by adopting the slice, drawing the polar coordinate system on a rectangular coordinate system, fitting a curve, and solving the to-be-measured girth by utilizing a polar coordinate arc length integral formula.

The invention provides a management system for grazing by unmanned aerial vehicles. The management system comprises the unmanned aerial vehicles, a hangar, an electronic fence and a control station, wherein information is wirelessly transmitted between the control station and the unmanned aerial vehicles; the electronic fence defines a general grazing region; a main control system is arranged on a driving unmanned aerial vehicle; an auxiliary control system is arranged on a tracking unmanned aerial vehicle; a central control unit of the main control system is electrically connected with a main data acquisition unit; the main data acquisition unit is used for acquiring livestock position information and body temperature information in the grazing process and storing acquired information in a main memory unit; the main memory unit is connected with the control station; a timing unit is connected with an analytical unit; the analytical unit is used for calling setting time of the timing unit and setting time of the main memory unit, comparing the setting time and transmitting a comparison signal to a main driving unit; a main flying unit is used for controlling the driving unmanned aerial vehicle to fly; autonomous grazing of the unmanned aerial vehicles can be realized in an automatic mode and the operation of farm households is not needed; moreover, health monitoring of livestock can be realized.

A litter processing system is provided implementing one or more robotic vehicles to process livestock litter, detect conditions of the litter with a plurality of sensors, and treat the litter based upon data collected by the sensors. The vehicles may include processors and software that control vehicle tasks. The vehicle's onboard software may be controlled by a server having an instance of the software thereby controlling operation of the vehicles and collecting sensor data from the vehicles via a wireless network.

A reconstruction method provided by the invention is configured to divide the whole contour of a livestock into a plurality of body parts, build a standard template for each body part, obtain livestock contour point cloud data through the soft laser technology which is safe for eyes, fuse the point cloud data and the standard template and obtain a reconstructed livestock body contour. The contour obtained by the method provided by the invention is more accurate with no need for complex algorithm for extraction and calculation, and cannot be interfered or influenced by extraneous environment so as to rapidly generate a complete three-dimensional contour.

The invention belongs to the technical field of the electronic communication. The technical problems that the existing livestock management is bad and the livestock is easy to lose or be stolen are solved. The intelligent grazing management system based on the Beidou short message comprises a region positioning base station, boundary positioning base stations, a positioning terminal, a backgroundmanagement center and a Beidou communication terminal; the region positioning base station is located at the center of a grazing region of a pasture and sends a wireless signal to all positioning terminals in the region, wherein the signal covers the grazing region of the pasture; the boundary positioning base stations are uniformly distributed at the pasture boundary and used for positioning livestock boundary and communicating with the background management system; the positioning terminal is respectively connected with the region positioning base station and the boundary positioning base stations in a wireless way; the background management center receives the information sent in a Beidou short message way, and monitoring and managing the livestock location; the alarm information is pushed to the grazing personnel through the Beidou short message way; and the Beidou communication terminal is used for receiving the alarm information pushed by the background management center.

The invention relates to release feeding equipment, in particular to quantitative release feeding equipment for the livestock industry. The invention is to solve the technical problem of providing thequantitative release feeding equipment for the livestock industry, which can carry out quantitative feed release according to the number of livestock which prepares to eat. The invention provides thequantitative release feeding equipment for the livestock industry, which comprises a bottom plate, a bracket, a storage assembly, a feeding assembly and a quantifying assembly, wherein the bracket ismounted on the bottom plate; the storage assembly is mounted on the bracket; the feeding assembly is mounted on the bottom plate; the quantifying assembly is mounted between the storage assembly andthe feeding assembly. According to the invention, by the storage assembly, a feed flows into the feeding assembly; after the feed exists in the feeding assembly, the feeding assembly is descended under the action of gravity to drive the quantifying assembly to close to the storage assembly and enable the livestock to stand on a supporting pressure plate in the eating process and drive the storageassembly to be automatically opened; and when the enough feed exists in the feeding assembly, the feeding assembly can be blocked and the feeding assembly and the quantifying assembly are fixed.

Systems and methods are effective in electrically grounding animals that are kept indoors, such as pets (dogs, cats, hamsters, iguanas, fish, birds, etc.), lab caged animals used for clinical trials (guinea pigs, rats, etc.). The inventive apparatus and concepts are also applicable to fish and other creatures in aquariums and animals that are kept indoors at night or during harsh weather, including livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs, lamb, etc.) and horse stables.

The invention discloses a renewable ecological energy system, which comprises farms, livestock raising areas, livestock and power generation devices, livestock processing plants, livestock competition fields and ecological sightseeing tourist spots, wherein the farms are used for planting forage crops for raising livestock and agricultural products through photosynthesis; the livestock raising areas are used for raising livestock and collecting livestock excrements which can be used as organic fertilizers for forage crops; the livestock grow in the livestock raising areas and are connected with the fixed or movable power generation devices through transmission mechanisms to conduct animal power generation; the livestock processing plants are used for processing mature livestock into foods or daily goods necessary for human life; and the livestock competition fields and the ecological sightseeing tourist spots are used for arousing the activity of the livestock. By adopting the ecological energy system, the forage crops can be planted in the farms, the forage crops can be used for raising the livestock, the livestock can drive the power generation devices for scale power generation, the livestock can also be butchered for eating, the ecological sightseeing tourist spots such as race courses, modern happy farmhouses and the like can be constructed near the farms and the livestock raising areas, the livestock excrements can be used as the organic fertilizers for the forage crops and thereby full-clean and environment-friendly recycling economy is realized.

An animal wellness notification system includes an attachment body configured to securely engage with an ear of the animal; an elongated temperature probe secured to the attachment body and configured to extend within the ear of the animal; a housing secured to the attachment body; a computer disposed within the housing and operably associated with the temperature probe; and a notification device in data communication with the computer, the notification device being configured to provide notice if a temperature of the animal goes beyond a determined threshold.

The invention relates to the technical field of livestock breeding, in particular to a livestock breeding management system based on the Internet of things. The system comprises identity labels whichare configured on the livestock ears of livestock and carry the identity information of the livestock; an inspection robot which is erected at the upper part in a livestock farm through a track and isused for realizing acquisition of video data of the livestock; and an intelligent terminal which is internally provided with a data post-processing system and is used for processing the video data ofeach livestock, evaluating the growth state and the health state of each livestock and outputting a corresponding breeding scheme and an epidemic prevention scheme according to an evaluation result.According to the invention, comprehensive detection and automatic evaluation of the growth state and the health state of the livestock and the environment in the livestock farm are realized, so that risk factors existing in the livestock breeding process can be found in time.