33 results about "Estrus Detection" patented technology

An electronic device for detecting estrus that may be affixed to the tail-head area of a cow is described. This device permits the accurate determination of optimal breeding time, natural or artificial, based on mounting activity. The device includes a water resistant housing, within which is contained the electronic portion of the device consisting of a controller means, a power means, an activation means, a read data means, and at least one display means; said device determining and subsequently indicating suspected and confirmed estrus based on an algorithm. The invention may be used, for example, with any non-human animal exhibiting standing heats and / or mounting behavior indicative of an estrus cycle for making mounting data determinations related to the estrus cycle and analyzing such data to determine optimal time to breed.

A method of determining breeding status in animals by (a) determining a breeding event (cyclicity, mounting, pregnancy, open) time, (b) providing an estrus or other breeding event detection apparatus, (c) affixing the estrus detection apparatus at a predetermined location on a female animal at a predetermined application time prior to the breeding event time, and (d) monitoring the estrus detection apparatus for activation thereof. An indicator apparatus is provided for use in indicating when an animal is in estrus. The apparatus is configured to be affixed to the rump of an animal to detect and indicate when the animal has been mounted and, thus, when the animal is in estrus. The apparatus is affixed to the animal by an adhesive layer. Layered on the top surface of the adhesive layer is an indicator layer that is in turn covered with a floodcoat layer. The floodcoat layer is adapted for removal upon the mounting of the first animal by a second animal. Removal of the floodcoat layer exposes the indicator layer indicating that the first animal has been mounted, thereby indicating that the first animal is in heat. The floodcoat layer is highly visible and may be seen from a distance.

A method for synchronizing ovulation in sows and gilts by a single injection of hormones is disclosed. A hormone, gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), analogues, derivatives, agonists or combinations thereof is administered to an open sow post weaning at a specific time to stimulate ovulation of mature responsive follicles. The sow is then bred, without heat detection, at a specific subsequent timed interval after injection with hormone, with one or two artificial or natural breedings. In gilts, the hormone is injected at a timed interval from onset of estrus or at a specific timed interval following Prostaglandin F2a for those gilts which have been held in a state of pseudopregnancy.

The invention discloses a bionic ewe estrus detection / induction apparatus and an estrus detection / induction method; the apparatus comprises a ranging sensor, a central processing module, a wireless communication module, a recording device, a biological estrus induction device, an image acquisition device and a power source; the above parts are mounted on a base which is mounted on a wheeled travelling mechanism; in estrus detection / induction, the biological estrus induction device attracts an ewe in estrus, the ranging sensor measures a distance between the ewe and the apparatus, and the recording device records sound made by the ewe; the image acquisition device acquires the signals, such as ewe ear tag number, tail wag images, and pen number, and the central processing module judges whether the ewe is in estrus or not and transmits judging results and measurement information to a farm background management terminal. Estrus detection or induction is performed herein according to the principle of bionics, so that working quality and efficiency are improved; the apparatus and the method are convenient to operate and high in practicality, require reduced numbers of ewes and farm workers, and reduced feed cost, and may be used to induce estrus and comfort ewes during insemination, so that fertility rate and conception rate are increased.

The invention provides a method for improving a sow pregnancy rate. The method comprises the steps of pre-breeding preparing, seminal fluid collecting and storing before breeding is carried out and estrus detection and breeding of a breeding sow. According to the method, the pregnancy rate of a sow can be increased more than 95%, the empty pregnancy rate for sow breeding is greatly lowered, the service life period of the sow is prolonged, the morbidity of a sow breeding system is greatly lowered, and the piglet birth rate is stable.

The invention discloses a sow mating management method. A manager only rechecks the physiological estrus characteristics of sows according to a signal prompt of an estrus checking lamp on an estrus detection processing device and can accurately judge whether each sow is in an estrus cycle in a form of saving observation labor and time; when each sow is determined to be in the estrus cycle, the manager performs mating operation according to the first and second prompts of a mating signal lamp, so that human faults or mistakes in a mating period are effectively avoided, and a pregnancy test can be automatically performed; during the mating and successful impregnation of each sow, a supervision center computer compares, analyzes and records each-stage expression data or information, obtained by the estrus detection processing device, of each sow in each estrus cycle or each mating, and outputs supervision data corrected before the next estrus cycle or the next mating to the estrus detection processing device for updating, so that the estrus cycle and mating success rate of each sow can be accurately controlled and improved along with the progressive increase of estrus frequency or mating frequency.

The invention discloses a sow estrus detection method and system. The method includes the following steps that an intelligent ear tag collects the body temperature and exercise data of a sow in real time and the data is uploaded to a management terminal through an intelligent gateway; when the sow takes foods from a food trough, the intelligent gateway at the food trough uploads the received datasent by the intelligent ear tag to the management terminal, and at the same time, the intelligent gateway records the residence time of the intelligent ear tag in the food trough area and uploads it to the management terminal and the management terminal analyzes the sow's food intake and eating frequency according to the residence time; the management terminal analyzes the received data, and whenthe corresponding body temperature, amount of exercise, food intake and feeding frequency of the sow meet specific indexes, the management terminal judges that the sow is in the estrus period and informs staff. The method can determine whether the sow is in the estrus period by analyzing the sow's body temperature, amount of exercise, food intake and feeding frequency so that the sow in the estrusperiod can be found in time and the breeding rate can be improved.

Provided is an estrus detection device comprising a resinous case (2) and a belt (20) to be fitted to livestock, wherein the case (2) accommodates a triaxial acceleration sensor (40) as an activity rate sensor for detecting the movement of livestock; a signal processor (41) for converting output from the triaxial acceleration sensor (40) to an activity rate; a temporary storage unit (42) for storing output from the signal processor (41) as the current activity rate; a storage unit (43) for storing, as a past activity rate, the activity rate determined for a designated past time period and stored in the temporary memory (42); an estrus determination unit (44) for determining whether or not the livestock is in a state of estrus from the past activity rate and the current activity rate; and a display unit (30) for displaying that the livestock is in a state of estrus when the estrus determination unit (44) has determined that the livestock is in a state of estrus.

The invention discloses a livestock estrus detection method, device and equipment. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring a video image and a sound audio of a livestock in a colony house; determining an action behavior of the livestock on the basis of the video image; identifying a sound production type of the sound audio; and according to the action behavior and the sound production type, eliminating an interference case and determining an estrus state of the livestock. According to the livestock estrus detection method, device and equipment, judgment on the estrus state is more accurate and reliable; problems of high human input and high experience requirement of artificial routing inspection are solved; cost of the detection equipment also can be effectively controlled; and estrusdetection efficiency and economic benefits are promoted.

The invention provides a simultaneous estrus-timed insemination treatment method for hybrid buffaloes. The method comprises the following steps that S1, intramuscular injection of gonadotropin releasing hormones is conducted on one or more healthy cows in the estrous cycle; S2, intramuscular injection of sodium cloprostenol is conducted; S3, gonadotropin releasing hormones are injected for the second time, and mifepristone is simultaneously injected to promote ovulation; S4, 24 hours after the injection of mifepristone, artificial insemination is conducted; S5, 5 days after the artificial insemination, intramuscular injection of human chorionic gonadotropin is conducted. By means of the method, the estrous cycle of the buffaloes is effectively controlled, and the simultaneous estrus rate,breeding rate and conception rate of the hybrid buffaloes are increased; the survival rate of early embryos is effectively increased; estrus detection is not needed, timed insemination is achieved, and the operation is convenient.

The invention provides a portable visible intrauterine semen deposition device for a dog. The device is mainly composed of a hard inserting tube with the controllable front end curvature, a flexible semen deposition tube assembly penetrating through the inserting tube, a handle, a temperature detection controller wound around the periphery of an instrument channel in the handle and connected with a power source, a direction key and bending locking module used for controlling a bending part and arranged on the handle, an integrated host, a computer / mobile terminal and the like. The inserting tube is directly guided by a video image, the cervical orifice of the female dog can be accurately found, the bending angle is flexibly controlled and locked through the handle, a semen deposition catheter directly enters a uterine cavity for injection of semen, the distance between the semen and a site of fertilization is shortened, the device guarantees that the semen enters the uterine cavity of the female dog at optimal temperature, discomfort and harm of blind placement to the female dog can be avoided, the insemination operating time is shortened, and portable use is convenient; the inserting tube is fine and thin, high in definition and large in field angle, the structure in the genital tract can be clearly displayed, estrus detection and semen deposition operation is promoted, and therefore the artificial insemination conception rate is remarkably increased.

The invention discloses a meat-sheep intensive-production integrated technology. The meat-sheep intensive-production integrated technology includes the following specific steps of 1, imported-meat sheep breed selecting, wherein three meat-sheep breeds of south-afria meat merino, dorper sheeps and Australia white sheeps are introduced and serve as male parents; 2, sheep breeding, wherein, estrus detection and hybridization of ewes are carried out; 3, lamb managing, wherein in the large-scale sheep breeding production, lamb managing is the central link, and is the key for achieving high benefits of sheep breeding production, the new matching technology is adopted in production, large-scale sheep breeding can obtain the higher economic benefits, and newborn lamb delivering, newborn healthy lamb nursing, lamb breeding, lamb-number tail-breaking record and technical index conducting and lamb concentrated food formula conducting are mainly carried out; 4, meat-sheep important pestilence controlling, wherein the rule that due to disease, fortifying is carried out is adopted, and the policy that prevention serves as the primary mode is carried out; 5, sheep yard constructing and device selecting. The meat-sheep intensive-production integrated technology has the advantages of being simple in step, feasible, effective, thoughtful and the like.

The invention provides an estrus early warning method for cattle. Activity and temperature of the cattle are collected, when the rising amplitude of the activity of the cattle at any collection time point is 2.5 times higher than the average historical cattle activity at the same collection time point in the previous 7 days, the duration time of rising of the cattle activity is not less than 1h, and at least one crest exists, early warning of cattle estrus is performed; and further, when the body temperature at any collection time point is 0.3 DEG C higher than the average value of the body temperature at the same collection time point in the previous 7 days, and the duration time is not less than 4.5h, early warning of cattle estrus is performed, and the accuracy of early warning of cattle estrus states can be further improved. According to the method provided by the invention, two detection methods are combined to be used for estrus detection, the deficiencies can be solved, so thatthe early warning method for cattle estrous provided by the invention can effectively improve the detection rate and accuracy of cattle estrus, and has important application value.

The invention discloses a multifunctional sow estrus detection device. The multifunctional sow estrus detection device comprises a detection station, wherein a feeding mechanism, a detection mechanism, a driving mechanism, an estrus promoting mechanism and an ink jetting mechanism are arranged in the detection station. The detection station comprises a bottom plate, fences fixed to the left end and the right end of the bottom plate, and a front door arranged at the front ends of the fences. The feeding mechanism comprises a feeding box, a feeding roller and a feeding roller driving motor. Thedetection mechanism comprises back pressing rods, a connecting rod, a connecting rod driving air cylinder and a generation mechanism. The driving mechanism comprises blocking rods, a second sliding block sliding front and back, a second ball screw arranged in the front-back direction and second sliding rods, and the left end and the right end of the second sliding block are each fixedly provided with a cross rod; the estrus promoting mechanism comprises an estrus promoting disc. The ink jet mechanism comprises an ink box, a water pipe and a nozzle. The multifunctional sow estrus detection device has the advantages of being capable of automatically detecting estrus sows, completing estrus promoting actions of the sows and scientifically feeding the sows.

The invention provides a treatment method for improving the reproduction rate and milk yield of dairy cows in summer by adopting capsaicin, which comprises the following steps: S1, selecting dairy cows on the 20th day after delivery, adding the capsaicin into daily ration, and continuously feeding the dairy cows for one month; S2, recording the 50th day after delivery of the dairy cows as the 0th day of synchronous estrus treatment of the dairy cows, and performing intramuscular injection of gonadotropin release hormone to the healthy dairy cows in the estrus period; S3, carrying out intramuscular injection on PGF2[alpha] on the 7th day; S4, on the 9th day, injecting gonadotropin for the second time to release hormone, and injecting mifepristone to promote ovulation; S5, on the 10th day, carrying out artificial insemination; and S6, performing intramuscular injection of human chorionic gonadotropin on the 15th day, namely the 5th day after artificial insemination. The treatment method can effectively improve the synchronous estrus rate, the breeding rate and the conception rate of postpartum cows, improve the milk yield of the cows, and improve the milk components; and estrus detection and timing semen deposition are not needed, and operation is convenient.

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic detection devices, in particular to a cow oestrus detection necklace which comprises a band-shaped necklace body and an oestrus detection device.The oestrus detection device is arranged on the band-shaped necklace body and comprises an acquirer, a processor and an oestrus warning device, and the acquirer, the processor and the oestrus warning device are sequentially connected with one another; the acquirer is used for acquiring cow activity information and transmitting the cow activity information to the processor via a data wire; the processor is used for judging whether cows are in normal states or oestrus states and transmitting judgment results to the oestrus warning device via a data wire; the oestrus warning device is used for displaying current states of the cows.The cow oestrus detection necklace has the advantages that the cow oestrus detection necklace is simple in structure and is convenient and practical, and the labor intensity can be relieved for observation staffs; activity of the cows is monitored in real time, so that the cow oestrus period disclosure rate can be increased; the optimal mating time can be determined according to disclosed oestrus time, accordingly, the milk yield of the cows can be increased, and the cow oestrus detection necklace is favorable for the economical efficiency.

The present invention provides a cattle estrus early warning method, which collects cattle body activity and cattle body temperature, and when the rise of the cattle body activity at any collection time point is higher than the average historical cattle body activity at the same collection time point in the previous 7 days 2.5 times the amount of bovine body activity, and the duration of the increase in the amount of bovine physical activity is not less than 1 hour, and there is at least one peak, which is an early warning of estrus; further, when the body temperature at any collection time point is higher than that at the same collection time point in the previous 7 days The average body temperature is 0.3°C higher, and the duration is not less than 4.5 hours, which can further improve the accuracy of early warning of cattle estrus. Combining the two detection methods for estrus detection can solve these shortcomings. Therefore, the cattle estrus early warning method of the present invention can effectively improve the detection rate and accuracy of cattle estrus, and has important application value.

The invention discloses a cow estrus monitoring sticker. The cow estrus monitoring sticker comprises an estrus sticker body and a protection mechanism, wherein the estrus sticker body comprises an erasable surface layer, a first bright color signal layer, a back glue sticking layer and a white bright color signal layer, and the estrus sticker body is sequentially provided with the erasable surfacelayer, the first bright color signal layer, the white bright color signal layer and the back glue sticking layer from top to bottom. The invention further discloses a using method of the cow estrus monitoring sticker. The cow estrus monitoring sticker and the using method have the advantages that the estrus sticker is an economical, simple and efficient estrus detection tool, and a more accurateestrus detection result is provided by using a simple 'scratch' technology; protection paper is stuck to the bottom of the back glue sticking layer to protect the back glue sticking layer, and the circumstance that the viscous force of the back glue sticking layer is reduced due to the fact that the back glue sticking layer is exposed outside, and the viscous force of the back glue sticking layerstuck to the back of a cow is affected is avoided; and the protection paper is used for protecting the erasable surface layer of the estrus sticker body, and scratch of the erasable surface layer exposed outside is reduced.

The invention provides an auxiliary device for work of a portable fur-bearing animal estrus detection instrument. The auxiliary device comprises a bottle body used for containing cleaning disinfectant; meanwhile, a bottle cap with a through hole and a through groove hole is designed. The auxiliary device as a detection instrument for work can be used for simultaneously completing cleaning, sterilization, wiping, airing and the like of the handheld fur-bearing animal estrus detection instrument; the functions are complete; the structure is simple and compact; the use is convenient; the preparation work of all detection instruments can be continuously completed by one device; the work time is reduced.

The invention discloses a sow mating management method. A manager only rechecks the physiological estrus characteristics of sows according to a signal prompt of an estrus checking lamp on an estrus detection processing device and can accurately judge whether each sow is in an estrus cycle in a form of saving observation labor and time; when each sow is determined to be in the estrus cycle, the manager performs mating operation according to the first and second prompts of a mating signal lamp, so that human faults or mistakes in a mating period are effectively avoided, and a pregnancy test can be automatically performed; during the mating and successful impregnation of each sow, a supervision center computer compares, analyzes and records each-stage expression data or information, obtained by the estrus detection processing device, of each sow in each estrus cycle or each mating, and outputs supervision data corrected before the next estrus cycle or the next mating to the estrus detection processing device for updating, so that the estrus cycle and mating success rate of each sow can be accurately controlled and improved along with the progressive increase of estrus frequency or mating frequency.

A reusable estrus detection system includes disposable components and reusable components that interlock during operation. Following use, the disposable components can be disengaged and replaced by interlocking a new set of disposable components with the reusable components.

The invention discloses a sow estrus detection method and system. The method includes the following steps that an intelligent ear tag collects the body temperature and exercise data of a sow in real time and the data is uploaded to a management terminal through an intelligent gateway; when the sow takes foods from a food trough, the intelligent gateway at the food trough uploads the received datasent by the intelligent ear tag to the management terminal, and at the same time, the intelligent gateway records the residence time of the intelligent ear tag in the food trough area and uploads it to the management terminal and the management terminal analyzes the sow's food intake and eating frequency according to the residence time; the management terminal analyzes the received data, and whenthe corresponding body temperature, amount of exercise, food intake and feeding frequency of the sow meet specific indexes, the management terminal judges that the sow is in the estrus period and informs staff. The method can determine whether the sow is in the estrus period by analyzing the sow's body temperature, amount of exercise, food intake and feeding frequency so that the sow in the estrusperiod can be found in time and the breeding rate can be improved.

The invention provides a treatment method for improving the effect of synchronous estrus-timed insemination of buffalo in summer, which comprises the following steps: injecting melatonin to multiparous buffalo two days before synchronous estrus treatment, namely the 48th day after delivery, and then performing synchronous estrus-timed insemination. The invention also provides a novel application of the melatonin. According to the treatment method, the estrus synchronization rate of the summer multimilk buffalo is effectively increased, follicle development and development speed, breeding rate and conception rate are promoted, the milk yield and early embryo survival rate of the buffalo can be increased, the number of somatic cells is reduced, estrus detection and regular insemination are not needed, and operation is convenient.

An estrus detection device is composed of a resin case (2) and a belt (20) to be attached to a livestock animal. The case (2) contains a triaxial acceleration sensor (40) as an activity sensor for detecting the motion of the animal; a signal processing unit (41) for converting the output of the triaxial acceleration sensor (40) to the amount of activity; a temporary storage unit (42) for storing the output of the signal processing unit (41) as the present amount of activity; a storage unit (43) for storing, as the past amount of activity for a past predetermined time period, the amount of activity stored so far in the temporary storage unit (42); an estrus determination unit (44) for determining whether the animal is in estrus or not based on the past amount of activity and the present amount of activity; and a display part (30) for showing that the animal in in estrus when the estrus determination unit (44) has determined that the animal in in estrus.

The invention discloses a ewe estrus detection device which comprises a shell, a control box, a peephole, an inkjet marker and an ear tag reader-writer. The peephole facilitating contact between a ewe and a ram is formed below one side of the shell. The ear tag reader-writer for reading an ear tag of the ewe is installed on the outer side of the peephole. The control box and the inkjet marker for marking are arranged inside the shell. A PLC, an electromagnetic valve and a touch screen are arranged inside the control box. The PLC is connected with the electromagnetic valve and the touch screen and further connected with the ear tag reader-writer. When an electronic ear tag is put on the ear of the ewe, the ram is put into a full-closed fence; the ear tag reader-writer will read the number of the ear tag every time the ewe visits the ram, the ear tag reader-writer transmits data to the PLC, whether the ewe is in the estrus or not is judged after the PLC processes the data, and if the PLC judges that the ewe is in the estrus, the inkjet marker is controlled to mark the ewe. The ewe estrus detection device is used for detecting whether the ewe is in the estrus, is simple, replaces manual work, reduces manual errors, and improves the breeding rate.