380 results about "Herd" patented technology

A method for detecting malicious servers. The method includes analyzing network traffic data to generate a main similarity measure and a secondary similarity measure for each server pair found in the network traffic data, extracting a main subset and a secondary subset of servers based on the main similarity measure and the secondary similarity measure, identifying a server that belongs to the main subset and the secondary subset, and determining a suspicious score of the server based on at least a first similarity density measure of the main subset, a second similarity density measure of the secondary subset, and a commonality measure of the main subset and the secondary subset.

Disclosed are methods of administering at least two Bacillus strains to a pig, such as female breeding stock, nursery pigs, or other pigs. The Bacillus strains inhibit Clostridium in litters borne to the pig. The Bacillus strains also are useful when administered to herds lacking symptoms of Clostridium infection. Administration of the Bacillus strains improves performance of female breeding stock and in piglets borne by the female breeding stock.

Disclosed are a system, device and process for monitoring physical and physiological features of livestock through a unique monitoring system and device. Basic and Smart tags are placed on livestock to monitor, among other things, temperature, movement, location, posture, pulse rate, and other physical and physiological features. Information is relayed from Basic tags, in one embodiment, to Smart tags that requests the information and receives the information from the basic tags. Smart tags send information to a mobile unit controller and/or home base so that requested information is sent to an end user that monitors the livestock for signs of illness. Potentially ill animals are segregated from the herd for further evaluation and minimization of exposure risk to the rest of the herd. This early detection system saves livestock and ensures a healthier herd for livestock farmers.

A method and system for livestock breeding and management for use with a herd where each female animal carries a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The system comprises a herd management system and one or more breeding activity monitors to be carried by each male animal. Each breeding activity monitor is adapted to detect when the male animal is mounting a female animal based on the body position of the male animal, read identification data from the RFID tag carried by the mounted female animal, and generate breeding activity data including the identification data of the mounted female animal, mounting male animal and timing data for each mounting for output to the herd management system. The herd management system is adapted to process breeding activity data output from the breeding activity monitors to generate herd management data.

The present invention relates to a yard feeding cattle efficient total ration blocky feed and a production method thereof. The yard feeding cattle efficient total ration blocky feed consists of 37 percent to 60 percent of crushed or cut forage grass, 38 percent to 60 percent of yard feeding cattle concentrate complemental feed and 2 percent to 3 percent of bentonite which are mixed in a mixer, the water content of a product is controlled within 14 percent, and finally, the prepared raw material is pressed and molded in a ring die waferer. The present invention leads total mixed ration (TMR) to be blocks, compared with the TMR in bulk, the present invention has the advantages that the present invention has stable feed quality, reduces the forage grass waste in the process of feeding and the labor intensity, improves the labor ration and can be fit for large scale industrialized production; the present invention improves the grain ration palatability obviously, effectively prevents the flocks and herds from being fussy, improves the dry matter feed intake and the weight grain of the ruminant and reduces the feed cost to save the feed grains; the present invention has balanced nutrition, thereby being good for improving the feed utilization rate and reducing the occurrence of various kinds of stress diseases of animals; the present invention is convenient for being stored and transported, etc.

The invention provides a frozen semen diluent formula for flocks and herds, and the formula of each 100mL of diluent comprises the following components: 1.35-1.55g of citric acid, 2.4-2.6g of trihydroxymethyl aminomethane (tris), 1.0-1.2g of glucose, 4.5-6.8ml of glycerol, 18.0-21ml of yolk, 4.5-7.5ml of bovine serum albumin (BSA), 0.45-0.75ml of vitamin B12, 50000-100000IU of benzylpenicillin potassium, 50000-100000IU of streptomycin sulfate and the balance of distilled water. The formula provided by the invention is low in cost, simple and convenient in preparation and using and operation steps, capable of effectively improving the sperm motility, the acrosome integrity rate and the plasmalemma integrity rate, and capable of reducing the sperm aberration rate.

Feed for herd boars comprises the following ingredients in percentage by weight: 62 of corns, 20 of 46% soya bean meal, 10 of wheat bran, 2 of beer yeast powder, 2 of Peruvian steamed fishmeal, 1 of calcium hydrophosphate, 0.7 of mountain meal, 0.32 of salt, 1.2 of core materials special for herd boars, 0.2 of baking soda, 0.12 of choline, 0.01 of ethoxy quinoline, 0.40 of smectite and 0.05 of propionic acid type mildewproof agent. The feed has good palatability and low feeding cost, ensures the survival rates of the semen of the herd boars to be higher than 99.8% and ensures good vigor and little dead and weak semen.

Disclosed are a system, device and process for monitoring physical and physiological features of livestock through a unique monitoring system method and device. Basic and Smart tags are placed on livestock to monitor, among other things, temperature, movement, location, posture, pulse rate, and other physical and physiological features. Information is relayed from Basic tags, in one embodiment, to Smart tags that requests the information and receives the information from the basic tags. Smart tags send information to a mobile unit controller and/or home base so that requested information is sent to an end user that monitors the livestock for signs of illness. Potentially ill animals are segregated from the herd for further evaluation and minimization of exposure risk to the rest of the herd. This early detection system saves livestock and ensures a healthier herd for livestock farmers.

The invention discloses an alfalfa dehydration silage harvesting technology and a harvester, and belongs to stockbreeding machines. Through the harvesting technology and the harvester, the field airing is not required, weather influence is avoided, the harvesting is performed at the best cradling period of alfalfa, multiple operation links of harvesting, dehydrating, cutting up, compacting and bagging and the like are finished at a time, the operation processes are reduced, the harvesting time is shortened, the investment cost on the machine is lowered, and the labor force is saved; and meanwhile, prepared silage alfalfa is small in package and is convenient to carry, and the commercialized production is easy to realize. Squeezed juice can directly flow into the field as liquid fertilizer or can be collected to feed flocks and herds, poultry and the like.

A novel and improved dry stick construction for the determination of an analyte in a sample is provided. The dry stick device comprises: (i) a solid support comprising a cavity, and (ii) at least one dry reagent capable of reacting with the analyte, a derivative of said analyte or an indicator compound for said analyte to provide a detectable signal when in a moistened state, wherein the cavity comprises the at least one dry reagent. The present invention also provides an automated or semi-automated system. Additionally the present invention provides an automated or semi-automated system for optimising the production performance of a milk producing animal herd.

A self powered monitoring device for monitoring an animal's temperature and other vital signs. The device may be mounted in the animal's ear, under the animals skin, or in any location which can be used to generate a reliable indication of the animals temperature and other vital signs. The temperature probe for the device is inserted subcutaneously and thermally and/or electrically connected to the housing of the device. Power for the device is provided by a miniature array of solar cells, the power from the solar cells being used to drive digital circuitry which processes signals from the various probes used to gather data concerning the animal's vital signs. The size of the array is chosen to be commensurate with the number of vital signs monitored, with the amount of sunlight, density of herd, and other factors being considered to ensure sufficient power for the device.

The present invention relates to the identification of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within the bovine CAST locus encoding the calpastatin protein, wherein the allelic variation of the SNP is a G/C transversion associated with post-mortem muscle tenderness. The invention further relates to oligonucleotides useful in identifying the genotype of bovines as it relates to the CAST locus polymorphic site. The invention also encompasses computer-assisted methods and systems for improving the production efficiency for livestock having marketably tender meat using multiple data, and in particular the genotype of the animals as it relates to the CAST SNP. These methods of the invention encompass obtaining a genetic sample from each animal in a herd of livestock, determining the genotype of each animal with respect to specific quality traits as defined by a panel of at least two single polynucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), one SNP corresponding to a site between exons 5 and 6 of the bovine CAST locus, grouping animals with like genotypes, and optionally, further sub-grouping animals based on like phenotypes.

A livestock cooling system creates an environment for protecting the health and productivity of animals, particularly dairy cows. One or more cooling fans are connected to programmable oscillation means, enabling the herds man to program fan oscillation according to the location of the livestock. Water is injected under high pressure into the air stream of the fans to create a fog. The system is also programmable according to various environmental conditions, including temperature, humidity, and wind velocity. The pressure and volume of the injected water are programmable and may be adjusted by the controller according to the observed environmental conditions. The disclosed system provides a cool and healthy environment for livestock, where the environment is programmed to track the animals according to the time of day, location of the animals and the location of shade.

Disclosed is apparatus and a method for detecting udder disease in dairy animals. An accelerometer is attached to each of a plurality of dairy animals. A processor determines a measure of the activity of the dairy animals to which the accelerometers are attached. Data is recorded by and automatically transmitted from a sensor unit secured to an animal, without the requirement for costly and time consuming chemical analysis of milk, or of visual or veterinary inspection of individual animals in a herd. The development of an udder disease in a dairy animal, such as mastitis, may be identified from a decrease in the monitored measure of activity of a dairy animal. A separate baseline measure of activity may be determined for each dairy animal and the ac tivity of a plurality of dairy animals in one or more herds may be taken into account, in order to reduce false positives due to external effects which are not specific to a single dairy animal.

The physiological regulation of intake, growth and energy partitioning in animals is under the control of multiple genes, which may be important candidates for unraveling the genetic variation in economically relevant traits in beef production. The present invention relates to the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the bovine gene encoding mitochondrial transcription factor A (“TFAM”) and their associations with economically relevant traits in beef production. The invention further encompasses methods and systems, including network-based processes, to manage the SNP data and other data relating to specific animals and herds of animals, veterinarian care, diagnostic and quality control data and management of livestock which, based on genotyping, have predictable meat quality traits, husbandry conditions, animal welfare, food safety information, audit of existing processes and data from field locations.

The invention relates to a bitter buckwheat health care beverage with an auxiliary function for lowering blood pressure and a production process thereof. In the invention, the traditional Chinese medical science theory and the modern science theory are combined, natural traditional Chinese medicinal herd such as bitter buckwheat is taken as the main raw material, and the health care beverage withthe auxiliary function for lowering blood pressure is prepared. The raw material adopted in the invention is common food raw material and medicine and food homologous raw material, the product provided by the invention is safe, efficient, non-toxic and applicable to being drunk for a long time. After the beverage is drunk for a long time, the blood pressure can be effectively lowered, and the immunity of the organism can be improved. The formula of the beverage is scientific, the technology is advanced, the process is simple and convenient, and standardized, normalized and industrialized production is easy to realize.