1604 results about "Milk cow's" patented technology

In an automatic milking installation including a robot arm (2) with a gripper (3) for attaching teat cups (4) to the teats of an animal, e.g. a cow, to be milked, for applying a teat dip to the teats after milking different members, such as spray nozzles (5a, 5b), dipping cups (5c, 5d) and sponge or cloth rollers (5e), are provided for applying different teat dip compositions. Under the control of a computer, the robot arm collects the member (5) appropriate for supplying the selected composition and takes it to a position appropriate for application of that composition. The selection can e effected in dependence upon the teat skin condition, e.g. detected by a camera (15) and/or environmental conditions.

An implement for automatically milking a dairy animal, such as a cow, comprises a milking parlour, a sensor for observing a teat, and a milking robot for automatically attaching a teat cup to the teat. The milking robot comprises a robot control that is connected to the sensor. The sensor comprises a radiation source for emitting light, a receiver for receiving electromagnetic radiation reflected from the dairy animal, a lens, and sensor control unit. The sensor comprises a matrix with a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of receivers. The sensor control unit is designed to determine for each of the receivers a phase difference between the emitted and the reflected electromagnetic radiation in order to calculate the distance from the sensor to a plurality of points on the part to be observed of the dairy animal.

A method and apparatus for the automated milking of dairy cattle employing live capture of the teats of a dairy cow without requiring identification of a particular dairy cow or the prior knowledge of the location of the individual teats. The live capture milking apparatus locates the individual teats of a dairy cow and attaches a teatcup to the teat without the need for human intervention. After the milking operation is completed, the live capture milking apparatus returns to a home position where cleaning and sanitization the milking equipment occurs.

The invention provides a cow feedstuff combination, in particular to a functional feedstuff combination to feed high production cow. The invention endows fatty acid with function of rumen passing by adding strong alkali week acid salt fatty acid salt, to act as energy supplement agent for cow; the combination is matched with other protein feedstuff, energy feedstuff, mineral, Vitamin and so on to acquire a fine mixture, which can meet the special requirement of such components as energy, protein, Vitamin and mineral and so on of cow, in particular to high production cow 100 days after delivery, and release the energy balance, improve the body condition, milk quality and anti-stress, and prevent the occurrence of nutrition metabolization diseases.

This invention relates to an Apparatus for milking animals, such as cows, and comprising a milking machine with teat cups and sensors which govern the milking process, examine the milk obtained and the physical condition of the animal being milked. The apparatus also includes a processing unit such as a computer for processing signals received from the sensors. The signals from the sensors are wirelessly transmitted via a transmitter to the processing unit. The sensors may be incorporated in each teat cup or only one teat cup. Energy for the sensors is generated by movements of magnets in coils, which are incorporated in each teat cup or in at least one of the feed cups, the movements of the magnets being provided by vacuum pulsations on each teat cup or one of the teat cups, or from another energy sources such as solar cells.

The invention provides livestock feed which takes nutlets, dried vegetables, dried fruits and Chinese herbal medicines as a livestock feed component and a livestock drinking water component and a livestock feeding method. The livestock feed containing the nutlet components comprises livestock feed and livestock drinking water. The livestock feed is characterized in that the livestock contains the nutlet components, wherein the nutlets comprise shelled melon-seeds (A3), peanut kernels (A4), perillaseeds (A15), sesame seeds (A25) and sesame (A34), and the number of nutlet components in the feed is greater than or equal to 1 but less than or equal to 16. Livestock comprises laying hens, broilers, dairy cattle, cattle, laying ducks and meat ducks. The livestock feed comprises a feed component (A), a feed component (B), a universal component (T), standard feed (M) and mixed feed (X). The livestock drinking water comprises a drinking water component (C), a drinking water component (D), a universal component (T), standard drinking water (W) and mixed drinking water (Y). Livestock is fed by using the livestock feed and livestock drinking water, so that the quality of eggs and milk can be improved, the quality of meat can be improved, and a great economical benefit can be brought to the livestock breeding industry.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a biological feed additive with nutrition and immunocompetence. The biological feed additive with nutrition and immunocompetence comprises the following components: 0.05 to 0.1% of aerobic bacteria, 0.05 to 0.1% of anaerobic bacteria, 0.3 to 0.5% of fermenting promoter, 5 to 15% of soybean meal, 5 to 10% of molasses, 15 to 25% of DDGS (Distillers Dried Grains with Soluble), 10 to 30% of cassava residue, 20 to 50% of bran meal, 5 to 15% of bran, 5 to 15% of maize cob powder, and 20 to 40% of maize slurry protein. The preparation method comprises the processes of activating bacteria, crushing raw materials, aerobically fermenting for 1 to 2 days, and then anaerobically fermenting for 3 to 7 days. The prepared biological feed additive brings piglet, medium and large pigs and sheep with high nutrition value, is high in palatability, and has effects of accelerating growth, improving intestinal health, controlling diarrhea, controlling constipation of sow, increasing birth weight and weaning weight of the piglet, improving the quality of eggshell and egg yolk, controlling feed-containing faeces, raising the lactation level of dairy cattle, as well as increasing butterfat and protein content.

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 invention discloses a fodder grass type fermented total mixed ration (TMR) for dairy cows and a preparation method thereof. The fermented TMR is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by mass in terms of dry weight: 30 to 40 percent of fodder grass, 25 to 30 percent of forage crop silage, 5 to 10 percent of protein feed, 15 to 20 percent of energy feed, 1 to 2 percent of molasses, 5 to 10 percent of food processing by-products, 0.5 to 1.2 percent of premix compound, 1 to 2 percent of calcium hydrophosphate, 0.5 to 1 percent of stone dust, 0.2 to 0.3 percent of common salt, 0.4 to 0.6 percent of sodium bicarbonate and 0.1 to 0. 2 percent of magnesium oxide; wherein the raw materials are prepared into the fodder grass type fermented total mixed ration for medium and high yield dairy cows through the steps of weighing, water content adjustment, mixing, and fermentation after wrapping. A mixed batch obviously improves the quality of a feed after fermentation, effectively improves the feed intake of the dairy cows, improves the palatability and the digestibility of the feed, and can obviously improve the production performance of animals; the fermentation improves the storage performance of the feed, and makes a mixed feed have high aerobic stability, so the feed is convenient for commercialization, storage and transportation, and is favorable for modernized intensive feeding of the dairy cows. The technique has important practicability and application promotion values.

The invention discloses a composite traditional Chinese medicinal sterilizing agent for a dairy farm which has no medicine residue and is environmentally friendly. The composite traditional Chinese medicinal sterilizing agent product is prepared by compounding traditional Chinese herbs such as gallnut, houttuynia cordata, coptis chinensis, scutellaria baicalensis, folium isatidis, herba andrographitis, radix isatidis, wild chrysanthemum flower, gingko, rhizoma acori graminei, magnolia officinalis, thyme, lysimachia christinae hance and the like in an ultrasonic auxiliary two-step extraction process. The composite traditional Chinese medicinal sterilizing agent has advantages the that the production process of ultrasonic auxiliary ethanol extraction of traditional Chinese herb and decoction is adopted in the preparation process of the composite traditional Chinese medicinal sterilizing agent, so that the aqueous soluble and alcohol soluble antibacterial active substances in the traditional Chinese herbs can be more adequately utilized; secondly, tween 80 and propanediol are added in the composite traditional Chinese medicinal sterilizing agent, so that the stability, adsorption property and viscosity of the sterilizing agent can be improved, and the effect of the composite traditional Chinese medicinal sterilizing agent can be further improved; thirdly, the product is environmentally friendly and safe, has no adverse effect on cow and has no problems such as medicine residue and drug resistance.

The invention discloses a Bdellovibrio strain for preventing and treating mastitis and applications thereof. A Bdellovibrio BDS01 is obtained by separation, and is unicellular, arced and 0.9-0.25 micrometer in size; the end of the Bdellovibrio BDS01 has flagellum which is 4 micrometers long. When cultured by a two-layer plating method at 28 DEG C for four days, the Bdellovibrio BDS01 can form transparent round plaques with the diameter of 1-2 mm. The microbial preparation prepared by using the Bdellovibrio BDS01 plastid has favorable effects for preventing cow mastitis. Compared with the telotroch, the plastid has the characteristics of convenient preparation and storage, strong environmental resistance, slightly slow sterilization action, longer sterilization action time, and the like, and does not have toxic or side effect on cows. Therefore, the microbial preparation containing the Bdellovibrio BDS01 plastid is suitable for large-size factory culture of cows, and a novel method forgreen processing and production of milk and for preventing and treating mastitis can be provided.

The invention relates to organic biological feed additives containing nano selenium and zinc oxide, a preparation method and a use method. The product of the organic biological feed additives is russety dry powder with a granularity between 80 and 140 nanometers, and can form suspension with water; the selenium content is between 0.00 and 36.00 percent and the zinc content is between 0.00 and 45.00 percent; the selenium content and the zinc content can not be 0 simultaneously; the organic biological feed additives are prepared by nano selenium organic biological intermediates and nano zinc oxide organic biological intermediates which are respectively prepared by fermentation of selenium dioxide and nano zinc oxide through microorganisms in the presence of various nutrient components; and 2.3 to 11.5 mass times of water is uniformly mixed with the organic biological feed additives containing the nano selenium and the zinc oxide and then sprinkled in feed which is then used for feeding laying hens, milk cows or nanny goats for 5 to 10 days. Compared with contrast feed, the selenium content and the zinc content of produced eggs are respectively 2 to 5 times and 2 to 2.5 times; the selenium content and the zinc content of produced milk are respectively 3 to 6 times and 2 to 4 times; and the selenium content and the zinc content of produced goat milk are respectively 3 to 7 times and 3 to 6.5 times.

The invention relates to a disease-resistant health care compound Chinese herbal medicinal feed additive for dairy cattle in a perinatal period, which can prevent fatty liver for dairy cattle in the perinatal/postpartum period from happening, improves the reproductive performance of dairy cattle in the perinatal/postpartum period, and is characterized in that based on the physiological stage characteristics of the dairy cattle in the perinatal period, two compound Chinese herbal medicinal additives (an antenatal compound Chinese herbal medicinal preparation A and a postpartum compound Chinese herbal medicinal preparation B) are prepared by stages, wherein the antenatal compound Chinese herbal medicinal preparation A comprises the following raw material components in parts by weight: 15 parts of radix astragali, 15 parts of Angelica sinensis, 25 parts of medicated leaven, 20 parts of hawthorn, 15 parts of areca nut, 30 parts of felwort, 20 parts of radix bupleuri, 20 parts of fructus gardeniae, 20 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 15 parts of akebiaquinata, 20 parts of capillary Artemisia, 25 parts of Artemisia apiacea, 15 parts of rehmanniae praeparatum and 10 parts of liquorice; and the postpartum compound Chinese herbal medicinal preparation B comprises the following raw material components in parts by weight: 15 parts of angelica sinensis, 15 parts of white paeony root, 15 parts of ligusticum wallichii, 15 parts of safflower, 20 parts of peach seed, 20 parts of radix bupleuri, 30 parts of felwort, 20 parts of fructus gardeniae, 15 parts of scutellaria, 15 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 15 parts of akebiaquinata, 20 parts of rhizoma atractylodis, 20 parts of medicated leaven, 15 parts of hawthorn, 10 parts of liquorice and 15 parts of leonurus. The feed additive is stirred into a daily ration or grain feed in three steps, evenly mixed and fed to the cattle, wherein each cow needs 300g every day.

A streptomyce shygeroscopicus (CCTCC No.M203062) able to generate glutamine transaminase wigh high output is extracted from the soil of milk cow farm through plate screening, primary fermenting, flask culture, comparing test with standard color tape, and enzyme activity test. Said glutamine transaminase is prepared by deep fermentation.

This invention provides a rumen-bypass dietary supplement in compacted particulate form. The supplement has the capability to transport fatty acid calcium salt and between about 65-96 percent of rumen-protected undegraded aminoacid content to the post-ruminal digestive system of a ruminant. A feedstock containing the supplement for ruminants benefically improves feed efficiency and body growth. The feedstock also is adapted to improve the lactational performance of dairy cattle.

The invention discloses a process for producing an efficient bioorganic fertilizer by the resource utilization of dairy cow manure. The process comprises the following steps: taking the dairy cow manure as the raw material, taking straws, wormcast, seaweeds and the like as auxiliary materials and being prepared through a two-step fermentation process of a biological fermentation agent. The process has the benefits that the process has high resource utilization degree, is easy for large-scale industrial production, is favorable for realizing the resource utilization of dairy cow breeding wastes and solves the problem of dairy cow breeding environment pollution; a product has the effects of the bioorganic fertilizer and seaweed fertilizer and is rich in functional active components of seaweeds and a large number of probiotics, the balance of microorganisms in soil can be effectively regulated, organic matters, mineral substances or inorganic components in the soil are degraded, soil hardening, desertification, salinization and the like caused by perennial fertilizer abuse are eliminated, the soil is effectively improved, the crop productivity is improved, and the efficacies of improving the crop quality and improving the crop resistance are realized; in addition, the product has long action period and is an ideal fertilizer for developing environmentally friendly ecological agriculture.

The invention discloses a nutrition regulating and controlling additive special for dairy cattle in a perinatal period, which consists of rumen bypass fat 300-400g/kg, vitamin A 500,000-600,000 IU, vitamin E 5000-6000 IU, selenium 3-5mg/kg, compound Chinese herbal medicine 100-200g/kg and the balance carrier, wherein the compound Chinese herbal medicine is prepared by mixing, by weight, 10% of astragalus mongholicus, 10% of codonopsis pilosula, 5% of rhizoma cyperi, 5% of rhizoma atractylodis, 10% of angelica sinensis, 10% of radix paeoniae alba, 10% of rehmannia glutinosa, 10 % of herba epimedii, 10% of beautiful sweetgum fruit, 10% of cowherb seed and 10% of leonurus. The nutrition regulating and controlling additive special for the dairy cattle in the perinatal period has the advantages of being high in technological content, full in nutrition, comprehensive in functions, remarkable in effect and capable of improving energy negative balance state of postpartum dairy cattle and promoting body condition recovery, improves immune functions of the dairy cattle in the perinatal period, enhances disease resistance, reduces incidence of mammitis, endometritis, ketosis, puerperal feverand other diseases of the postpartum dairy cattle, promoting postpartum quick oestrus and improving reproductive performance.

A method of milking animals and cleaning at least a part of a milking device for milking animals, such as cows, is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of connecting at least one teat cup to a teat of an animal to be milked, milking the animal, cleaning at least a part of the milking device that has come into contact with the animal and/or with the milk from the animal, the very first cleaning step comprising cleaning and/or disinfecting said part of the milking device with steam, and a further cleaning step comprising treating with a fluid at least that part of the milking device that has been treated with steam.

The invention discloses animal feed which comprises the following components in parts by weight: 30-60 parts of ensilage, 10-25 parts of carrot, 3-20 parts of alkali grass, 5-20 parts of corn, 1-10 parts of acidified corn, 1-10 parts of wheat bran, 1-10 parts of wheat middling, 0.1-1 part of salt, 1-8 parts of extruded soybean, 1-8 parts of bean pulp, 1-8 parts of cottonseed cake, 0.1-0.8 part of bone meal, 0.1-1 part of fish meal, 1-10 parts of mineral premix, 0.1-0.5 part of microecologics and 0.1-1 part of rumen by-pass amino acid. The feed formula is reasonably matched, the rumen environment of the dairy cattle is regulated, the nutritive value of various components in the feed is fully exerted, the beneficial effects of improving the feed utilization rate, regulating the rumen function of the dairy cattle, improving the total milk production and lactoprotein content of dairy cows and relieving heat stress of cows are achieved, the animal feed is suitable for developing green and healthy cultivation, and pollution-free ruminant products are produced.