223 results about "Heifer calf" patented technology

A method and apparatus for measuring the physical characteristics of livestock animals such as cattle and hogs. The apparatus of the invention includes a plurality of strategically positioned cameras that are used to obtain data concerning volumetric, curvilinear (surface) and linear measurements of livestock animals such as cattle and hogs and the full carcasses thereof. In accordance with the method of the invention, the data is analyzed to provide information that substantially assists the commercial producer of livestock animals in producing a high-quality end-product for the consumer while adding profitability to the enterprise.

A composition of probiotics, vitamins and minerals, electrolytes with glutamine and glucose along with medium chain triglycerides are provided as a supplement to animals. This is administered to cattle, calves, sheep, pigs, horses, dogs, and cats that are experiencing stress and or are undergoing medical drug therapy to treat conditions of diseases along with pre and post operative surgical conditions. The composition helps correct imbalances in beneficial bacteria, provides energy and helps in rehydration to reduce recovery time from stress or in disease treatment in these animals.

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 present invention is directed to palatable ductile chewable veterinary composition for oral administration. The composition is capable of killing endo-parasites and ecto-parasites and/or can be used for treating prophylactic or curative animal diseases, and it is useful for the treatment of any warm-blooded non-human animal, including herd animals, like horses, cattle, sheep or poultry and preferably pets like dogs and cats. It consists basically of (A) an effective amount of one or more ingredients that are active against animal pests, pathogens or animal diseases; (B) meat flavoring; (C) partially gelatinized starch; (D) a softener; and (E) up to 9% water.

Nucleic acid molecules comprising a SNP site selected from the group consisting of position 1296 of bovine uterine milk protein (UTMP) coding sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1), position 213 of bovine signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT1) coding sequence (SEQ ID NO: 2), position 8514 of the osteopontin (OPN) gene (SEQ ID NO: 3), or position 1070 of a bovine lectin-like oxidized LDL receptor (OLR1) coding sequence (SEQ ID NO: 4), which SNP indicates a desirable milk production trait 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 present invention provides for, inter alia, novel topical formulations comprising at least one 1-N-arypyrazole derivative and amitraz and to methods for treating, controlling, or preventing parasite infestations on mammals or birds The inventive formulations include spot-on, pour-on or spray formulations and may include a further ectoparasiticide, such as an IGR compound, an avermectin or milbemycin derivative, or a pyrethroid insecticides, and anthelmintics, such as benzimidazoles and imidazothiazoles. The inventive formulation provides a larger duration of parasite control at a faster rate of control. The inventive formula remains effective up to three months from the first application. Moreover, the inventive formulations prevent tick attachment to the animal, thereby providing protection against tick borne diseases. The ectoparasites which may be controlled, treated or prevented by the present invention includes ticks, fleas, mites, mange, lice, mosquitoes, flies and cattle grubs.

This invention relates to systems and methods for managing livestock, such as cattle, from conception to consumption. More particularly, this invention relates to systems and methods in which users, such as producers, feedlot managers, packers, buyers, sellers, and consumers, are brought together through shared information and improved communication. Users may access one or more applications, tools, and/or systems to increase the value of each animal, monitor and track each animal, and improve the efficiency of their operation.

The present inventions relates to a method of increasing beef production in cattle with feed additives, comprising feeding cattle with feed, comprising an effective amount of an ionophore in combination with a macrolide antibiotic, and thereafter feeding cattle with feed, comprising zilpaterol and essentially no ionophore or macrolide antibiotic for the succeeding about 20 to 40 days.

The invention relates to a cattle sex control method based on sperm separation and embryo sex identification, including the steps of sperm separation and freezing storage, and sex controlled embryo production and embryo sex identification, where the fist step includes fresh sampling sperm sampling, sperm processing ahead of separating, sperm separation processing, and freezing storage; the second step includes embryo production (in vivo or tube technique), embryo cutting, and embryo sex identification by PCR.

A tempering treatment method whereby the temperature of meat, which involves carcass prepared by slaughtering cattle or poultry and sterilizing and washing, is lowered as close to the ice storage temperature as possible to prevent a temperature rise caused by the actions of enzymes contained within the meat before transporting the meant to a refrigerated storage, which comprises surface-freezing the meat by blowing a cold air stream at about −20 to about −40° C. to the meant before conducting the tempering treatment, thus allowing the generation of freezing latent heat in the subcutaneous part owing to the surface-freezing (freezing the subcutaneous tissue), and then rapidly lowering the core temperature inside the meat due to the latent heat released at the melting of the freezing latent heat to thereby conduct the tempering treatment at a temperature of 0 to +15° C.

A livestock hay saver which protects hay from the elements and contamination. The apparatus has timer-operated doors which provide control to completely automated means for providing feed to horses and cattle. Its battery-operated, solar-recharged power system makes it completely portable and minimizes the need for user attention or maintenance.

The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a method of normalizing the timing of sexual response in a mammal comprising the administration of an amount of a central nervous system sexual response initiator in an amount sufficient to produce genital vasodilation but less than the amount required to produce effective vasocongestive arousal. The method is applicable not only to adjusting or normalizing the timing of sexual response in humans, but in the breeding of valuable commercial animals such as horses, cattle, sheep, swine and the like and domesticated pets such as dogs and cats. In an alternative embodiment, the present invention provides a method for the prophylactic treatment of long-term tissue degradation in the genital organs comprising the administration to a mammal of a central nervous system sexual response initiator in an amount sufficient to produce genital vasodilation but less than the amount required to produce effective vasocongestive arousal. The preferred central nervous system sexual response initiator is apomorphine or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof.

An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a polymorphic site selected from the group consisting of positions 164, 269, 284, 407 and 989 of SEQ ID NO: 1, an array or a kit comprising the same. Also provided are a method for detecting single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in bovine proteinase inhibitor (PI) gene, a method for haplotyping a bovine cell, a method for progeny testing of cattle based on said haplotyping, a method for selectively breeding of cattle based on haplotyping a parent animal. The present invention further provides a method for testing a dairy cattle for its milk production trait, comprising haplotyping its cells, wherein a cattle having haplotypes 1, 3, 4 or 5 indicates that the cattle has desirable milk production trait. Haplotype 1 indicates that the cattle has the most desirable milk production trait.

The present invention provides a head restraint that can be used in conjunction with conventional cattle chutes that are equipped with head gates. Head restraints of this invention can be integrated into new chutes at the time they are manufactured or can be affixed to existing chutes. The head restraint apparatus of this invention provides the advantages of being humane by causing little or no discomfort to the cattle being restrained. Cattle being treated also tends to remain calm while being restrained utilizing the device of this invention as compared to conventional restraint procedures, such as the employment of a bull lead. It offers much easier and faster means for providing care to positions on the head of the animal. Its implementation can accordingly lead to reduction in human labor requirements associated with treating a herd of cattle and generally leads to savings in medication by virtue of being able to more accurately apply eye drops, ointments, or powdered medications to the eyes of a cow having a very stabilized head as compared to loss of medication when dealing with a struggling animal that is jerking its head around during the procedure. The head restraint of this invention can also be beneficially utilized in administering shots of medication into the necks of cattle. Shots in the neck can be given much more easily, quickly, and accurately to an animal that is being restrained with the head restraint of this invention to prevent the animal's neck from moving or jerking at the time that the shot is being administered. This greatly reduces the risk of injury to the animal and the person administering the shot and also reduces the possibility of bending or breaking the hypodermic needle The present invention more specifically discloses a head restraint for utilization in conjunction with a cattle chute, said head restraint being comprised of a lower neck restraint, an upper neck restraint which is mounted to the lower neck restraint, a nose restraint which is mounted to the lower neck restraint, and a means for affixing the head restraint to the cattle chute, wherein the upper neck restraint is adapted to swivel into a position forming an inverted U-shape over the top of the lower neck restraint, and wherein the nose restraint is adapted to swivel by horizontal motion into a position forming a closed U-shape with the lower neck restraint.

Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) are structurally related to the pepsins, thought to be restricted to the hoofed (ungulate) mammals and characterized by being expressed specifically in the outer epithelial cell layer (chorion/trophectoderm) of the placenta. By cloning expressed genes from ovine and bovine placental cDNA libraries, the inventors estimate that cattle, sheep, and most probably all ruminant Artiodactyla, possess possibly 100 or more PAG genes, many of which are placentally expressed. The PAGs are highly diverse in sequence, with regions of hypervariability confined largely to surface-exposed loops. Selected PAG that are products of the i0nvasive binucleate cells, expressed highly in early pregnancy at the time of trophoblast invasion and expressed weakly, if at all, in late gestation are useful in the early diagnosis of pregnancy. In a preferred embodiment, the invention relates to immunoassays for detecting these PAGs.

A combination one or more species of lactobacillus bacteria and one or more types of fibrolytic enzymes can be used to replace animal protein in cattle feed. The combination results in a better amino acid balance in the digestive tract of cattle resulting in a better utilization of nitrogen. Less water-soluble nitrogen compounds pass through the digestive tract resulting in less pollution. More nitrogen in the feed is converted to water insoluble compounds resulting in better feed utilization and less water-soluble pollution in the manure. The diseases carried by some animal protein additives, such as “mad cow” are not present in the additives of the present invention.

The invention relates to a method of producing a protein of interest, comprising making a non-human transgenic mammal that produces said protein in its milk, obtaining said milk from the non-human transgenic mammal and purifying said protein of interest from the milk. Transgenic bovine animals were generated, which are able to produce human growth hormone in mammary glands. The method involves cloning of a genetic construct encoding hGH gene and beta casein promoter conveniently in an expression vector. It also includes transfection procedures into fetal bovine somatic cells, generally fibroblasts, and the nuclear transfer into enucleated bovine oocytes, generating thus transgenic embryos. The method also includes other procedures to generate transgenic embryos for the further expansion of the transgenic herd, such as the subcloning of transgenic female bovines, the superovulation of transgenic cows and their insemination with semen from a non-transgenic or a transgenic male bovine, and the superovulation of non-transgenic cows and their insemination with semen from a transgenic male bovine. Afterwards, transgenic embryos give rise to transgenic cattle that produce human growth hormone in huge amounts in their milk, from which the hormone is completely purified and analysed to fulfill all the requirements for the manufacture of a pure biopharmaceutical product.

A method and kit for determining whether an animal is not pregnant, or is pregnant following a breeding. The level of expression of a pregnancy induced protein is determined in an animal for which pregnancy status information is desired and the level is compared to that of the level in animals that are not pregnant.

The invention relates to a treatment method of wastewater, particularly a treatment method of cattle farm culture wastewater, which comprises the following steps: (1) introducing culture wastewater into a solid-liquid separator to remove suspended substances; (2) sending the wastewater subjected to solid-liquid separation into a preliminary sedimentation tank, and adding an ammonia nitrogen and phosphate capturing agent into the preliminary sedimentation tank; (3) pumping effluent water of the preliminary sedimentation tank to a floatation unit, and adding a reagent to remove fine suspended substances; (4) sending effluent water of the floatation unit into a membrane bioreactor to filter out the suspended substances, colloidal substances and bio-unit microbial florae in the wastewater and trap high-molecular organic substances which can not be easily degraded temporarily, wherein the retention time of the reactor is prolonged to maximally decompose the high-molecular organic substances; and (5) sending effluent water of the membrane bioreactor into a disinfection tank, disinfecting, and discharging after reaching the standard or recycling. The treatment method of cattle farm culture wastewater has the advantages of favorable denitrification and dephosphorization effects, high shock load resistance, stable operation, energy saving and favorable effluent water quality, and is convenient for control and maintenance.

The invention removes the impurities in cattle manure through cleaning and filtering; then after drying in an air dryer, the cattle manure is put into a combustion cell; with the addition of saw power, the proportion of the dried cattle manure and the saw power in the combustion cell is 1:0.11-0.052; the dried cattle manure and the saw power burn in the combustion cell for 7-8 days at the temperature of 300-400DGE C to obtain the activated carbon. During the manufacturing process, the invention mainly utilizes the saw power produced in the prior wood processing process and a large amount of cattle manure generated during cattle raising process as the raw material; the invention develops and produces activated carbon through recovery and secondary utilization, so that the activated carbon production process has the advantages of wide material selection range, convenience and low cost; and the invention also avoids the environmental pollution caused by waste saw power and cattle manure. At the same time, the combustion efficiency of cattle manure is almost the same as that of wood material; the invention also guarantees the production efficiency of activated carbon and reduces the production cost of activated carbon; the activated carbon prepared by cattle manure and saw power can be widely applied into air purification and water treatment etc industries.

The invention discloses a cattle and sheep feed mixing device with a movable stirring assembly. The cattle and sheep feed mixing device with the movable stirring assembly comprises a mixing box, a motor, a transverse shaft and a base. Through arrangement of a lifting device, during working, a cover plate can be driven to move downwardly to close the mixing box, so that waste caused by feed splashing in the stirring process is avoided; the stirring assembly is completely arranged on the cover plate, so that the cover plate can be also driven by the lifting device to move upwardly to enable thestirring assembly to extend out of the mixing box, so that working staff can conveniently clean the stirring assembly; and through cooperative use of the transverse shaft, cams, an upper fixing plate,a lower fixing plate and return springs, stirring blades can reciprocate up and down while rotating, so that the stirring range is widened and the feed mixing efficiency is improved.