47 results about "Rumination - thoughts" patented technology

The invention discloses an intelligent livestock behavior monitoring system. According to the system, the aim that monitoring and analysis are carried out on livestock behaviors on a real farming scene by fusing the internet of things and the computer vision technology is achieved for the first time, a video monitoring and sensor network hardware and software system based on the WiFi technology is constructed for the first time, the problems that a traditional cable is high in installation cost, long in consumed time and hard to expand are solved, the monitoring and analysis on the behaviors of dairy cows on the real farming scene is achieved by fusing the internet of things and the computer vision technology, and the monitoring and analysis on several kinds of daily behaviors, such as ingestion, drinking, rumination, excretion, exercise, rest and exploration are achieved. Meanwhile, occurrences of abnormal events are monitored, and the alarm is automatically given on the abnormal behaviors.

The invention belongs to the technical field of animal nutrition and feed, and especially relates to a total mixed ration for mutton sheep in?the fattening?period and a preparation method thereof. The total mixed ration for mutton sheep is characterized by comprising the following raw materials in percentage by weight: alfalfa hay 35.00-35.00%, yellow corn silage 8.00-12.00%, malt root 3.00-5.00%, corn 25.00-35.00%, bran 2.00-5.00%, soybean meal 6.00-12.00%, cottonseed meal 2.00-6.00%, yeast culture 0.20-0.60%, corn distiller's dried grains for feed 2.00-5.00%, coated calcium chloride 0.20-0.60%, calcium hydrogen phosphate 0.10-0.60%, sodium bicarbonate 0.10-0.40%, salt 0.10-0.50%, coated cysteamine 0.05-0.10%, a core premix 0.20-0.30%, a rumination composite enzyme 0.05-0.10%, stone powder 0.30-1.00%, and vegetable oil 0.50-1.00%. The total mixed ration has the following advantages that the immunity, the health level and the uniformity of mutton sheep in?the fattening?period are improved.

The invention relates to molasses type high nutritional lapped bricks for cattle and sheep and a manufacturing method thereof. The lapped bricks are prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 38 percent of rice bran, 10 percent of cottonseed meal, 15 percent of urea, 9 percent of table salt, 16 percent of cement hardener, 10 percent of feed-grade calcium hydrophosphate, 1 percent of trace element premix and 1 percent of vitamin premix. The invention provides high-quality, high-efficiency, safe and environment-friendly molasses type high nutritional lapped bricks and a manufacturing method thereof. Trace additives are added into the lapped bricks to indirectly make farmers accept the excellent products; meanwhile, the molasses can promote the rumination of the cattle and sheep, increase the secretion of saliva, and improve the digestion of the cattle and sheep so as to improve the conversion efficiency of the feed; therefore, the cattle and sheep are more healthy, and the milk yield and milk quality are improved.

The invention discloses a ruminant monitoring system and belongs to the technical field of livestock breeding engineering. The ruminant monitoring system comprises a ruminant carrying device and an outdoor monitoring device, wherein the ruminant carrying device is communicated with the outdoor monitoring device through wireless signals. When the ruminant monitoring system is used, firstly a shell fixedly provided with the ruminant carrying device is hung on the neck of a ruminant together with a hanging rope, a counterweight on the hanging rope is positioned at the lowermost end of the hanging rope, and one surface of the shell with a piezoelectric ceramic piece at the side edge of the hanging rope is closely contacted with the body surface of the ruminant inwards, so that the piezoelectric ceramic piece can be used for collecting and monitoring rumination time signals of the ruminant at any time. The ruminant monitoring system is convenient and easy to use, accurate in measurement, and high in degree of intelligentization without manual intervention. By matching with software of an upper computer, the ruminant monitoring system can be used for realizing the detection, statistics, analysis, query and the like of the rumination condition, and uninterruptedly monitoring the rumination conditions of the ruminant for 24 hours, and has high degree of intelligentization in detection.

The invention relates to a statistical method of rumination chewing and swallowing times of a cow based on machine vision. The statistical method is characterized by comprising the following steps: 1) extracting cow shape features, training the extracted cow shape features as samples to obtain a sample library; 2) obtaining a video image containing chewing actions of the cow through a video collection device fixedly arranged in a cow rest area, performing data processing on the video image, and matching the video image with the sample library to accomplish the classification and match of head activity area modes of the cow; 3) importing the matched video image into the sample library as a new sample, performing mode classification and match on a subsequent video image in the step 2) by adopting the new sample library until all video images are processed, and executing step 4); and 4) locating a mouth action of the cow, judging a rumination chewing behavior of the cow by using an inter-frame difference method, and counting the chewing and swallowing times. The statistical method provided by the invention can be widely applied to the monitoring of health states of cows.

The invention provides a preparation method for a livestock fattening feed containing eucommia ulmoides fine powder. The livestock fattening feed is prepared from haylage and concentrate powder according to the weight ratio of 20:1 through uniform mixing, wherein the haylage comprises 30-50% of corn stalk, 15-20% of peanut seedling, 15-20% of ryegrass, and 20-30% of bean stalk; the concentrate powder comprises 45.5-60.5% of corn, 14-18% of wheat bran, 24-34% of eucommia ulmoides fine powder, 0.5-1% of salt and 1-1.5% of a feed additive. The livestock fattening feed is prepared by mixing the coarse feed and the fine feed according to the weight ratio of 20:1, the coarse feed namely the haylage contains high fibers and crude protein, the rough physical characteristics of the coarse feed facilitate rumen functions of the livestock, and the coarse feed is necessary for rumination stimulation and health maintenance. The concentrate powder is wrapped outside the haylage, so that health of intestines and stomachs of the livestock is improved, and appetite is improved and thus the purpose of fattening is realized.

The invention discloses sheep feed and a preparation method thereof. The sheep feed is prepared with, by weight, 30-35 parts of alfalfa hay, 20-25 parts of teosinte, 25-30 parts of Rumex, 30-40 parts of bean meal, 60-70 parts of corn, 40-50 parts of wheat bran, 0.5-1 part of medical stone, 0.3-0.6 part of carbonized hair, 1-2 parts of amino acid, 0.5-1 parts of vitamin and 1-2 parts of edible salt. After the sheep feed is processed, coarse fibers contained in the sheep feed are more conducive to digestive absorption and rumination of sheep, occurrence rate of intestinal diseases like ruminal impaction is lowered, and sheep raised by the feed are high in growing speed, delicious in meat taste, rich in nutrition and high in disease resistance. Components of the sheep feed are easy to get and low in price, so that cost of the feed can be lowered by 20-25%, economic benefit is increased by 30-50%, and the sheep feed has high popularization value.

The invention discloses a rumination recognition method based on nosepiece pressure change of a ruminant and belongs to the technical field of healthy culture of livestock and poultry. Rumination behaviors can be used for monitoring an estrous period and feeding condition of ruminants (mainly referring to domestic animals such as cattle and sheep) and reflecting physiological health status and the like of the animals. According to the method, a pressure sensor is adopted to acquire pressure signals of a nosepiece of the ruminant, rumination signals, food intake signals and water drinking signals can be preliminarily distinguished according to signal duration and whether the signals have stable frequencies or not, then, the rumination signals are further analyzed, boluses are measured according to peak value intervals of the rumination signals, and changes of the boluses can be used for reflecting health condition of the ruminant. According to the method, through measuring the pressure signals of the nosepiece of the ruminant to monitor rumination, environment noise interference can be effectively lowered, and thus, the accurate recognition and measurement of the rumination behaviors of animal individuals are achieved.

The invention discloses a mobile cowshed roof which comprises a fixed roof, a movable roof, a movable roof truss and a driving mechanism. When the weather is hot, a gear on a motor runs counterclockwise and slowly pushes the movable roof forward to the designated position; the cowshed roof ridge is opened, so that cow dung bedding in the cowshed receives sun radiation heat and further the evaporation of cow dung bedding water is accelerated; when weather is cold or rainy, the motor runs clockwise and can pull the movable roof to an original position for keeping out wind and rain and retaining heat; a large amount of cow dung can be used as bedding, so that the lying comfortableness of the cow is increased, rumination behavior frequencies are increased, the cumulative time is prolonged, the morbidity of cow mastitis is reduced, the milk yield is increased and the milk quality is improved.

The invention relates to a chewer rumination information collecting system. The chewer rumination information collecting system is characterized in that the chewer rumination information collecting system comprises hung ropes hung to bodies of all chewers respectively, each hung rope is provided with a mobile module, an electret microphone and a solar electroplate, each electret microphone makes close contact with the body surface of a corresponding chewer, each solar electroplate is located at the top end of the corresponding hung rope, and each mobile module comprises a power supply control circuit; each power supply control circuit has two input ends, wherein one input end is connected with a lithium battery, the other input end is connected with a solar control circuit and is then connected with a solar electroplate, and any input end of the power supply control circuit is selected for achieving output. According to the chewer rumination information collecting system, the audio processing and pattern recognition technology and the wireless transmission technology are adopted, audio equipment is adopted to collect original data, a new detection way is provided for the development of the digital dairy breeding industry, and the rumination information of each dairy individual can be acquired at low labor cost especially for large-sized dairy farms.

The invention relates to a dry and hard particle forage for house feed sheep fattening. The dry and hard particle forage is prepared from maize, bean pulp, dry wine dreg powder, maize straw powder, alfalfa meal, folium mori, Chinese herbal medicine meal, baking soda, calcium hydrophosphate and salt, and has the beneficial effects that the nutrition is balanced, and picky eating is avoided; the folium mori and the dry wine dreg powder can improve the palatability of the feed, so as to improve the food consumption; compared with the traditional mode of separately feeding a coarse feed and a concentrated feed, the particle forage can increase breeding and growth of probiotics inside the body of the sheep, promote the full absorption for nutrition, and improve the feed efficiency; the dry and hard particle forage can increase the function of the rumen, so as to effectively prevent diseases of the digestive tract; the dry and hard particle forage can guarantee the normal rumination of the sheep, also greatly reduces the energy dissipation of the rumination activity of the sheep, and effectively controls the pH value of the rumen within the optimal range; the Chinese herbal medicine meal can improve the immunity of the sheep, and reduce the occurrence of epidemic diseases; and the Chinese herbal medicine meal has the overall effects of accelerating the growth rate and the shortening the marketing period.

The invention discloses full-priced pellet feed during a dry period of milk goats as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The full-priced pellet feed is prepared from the following components: corn, wheat bran, alfalfa meal, cottonseed meal, soybean peel, apple residue, sesame seed cake, sunflower hull, corn germ cake, wheat midding, rumen protected fat, rumination yeast, mountainflour, sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride, magnesium oxide, a mildew preventive, montmorillonite, a sweetening agent, a trace element additive, decavitamin and the like. The full-priced pellet feeddisclosed by the invention is capable of providing balanced nutrition to the milk goats in the dry period, meanwhile, fine feed and coarse feed can be fully mixed and pelleted, and the milk goats canbe prevented from piddling during feeding; by adding a rumen buffer agent, probiotics and an enzyme preparation, digestive absorption of the milk goats on energy, protein and fiber can be increased, an original method for feeding through corn and coarse feed can be directly replaced, a feeding process of the milk goats can be simplified, toxin of daily ration can be reduced, not only growth and development of lambs can be met and the physique of the lambs can be increased, but also the nutritional state of ewes can be improved, milk can be diminished, swelling can be removed, and occurrence ofmastitis of the ewes can be reduced.

The invention provides a method of monitoring ruminant animals in real time, and belongs to the technical field of automatically monitoring animals. Hardware devices comprise a ruminant animal carrying device and a shed outside monitoring device. A series of processing is conducted on rumination signals collected by a piezoelectric ceramic piece, then the signals are digitalized through analog-to-digital conversion, a single chip microcomputer conducts filtering and pulse shaping on the digitalized signals, rumination activities of the ruminant animals are recognized, the length of duration time of rumination in unit time is determined, and stored rumination time data are uploaded to the shed outside monitoring device through a wireless network, processed and analyzed by the shed outside monitoring device, and then provided for cultivation management staff. The method has the advantages that automatic reorganization of the rumination signals can be achieved, and during large scale cultivation of the ruminant animals, complete and accurate rumination data of each ruminant animal can be provided for culturists; besides, due to the algorithmic superiority, the purposes of low power consumption and low cost are achieved.

Provided is an orally administered agent that is for ruminants and that is not broken down in the rumen by avoiding breakdown resulting from the rumination of ruminants, passes into the lower alimentary tract, and is there broken down and dissolved. The present invention provides an orally administered agent that is for ruminants and of which the specific gravity is 1.17-2.00, the largest particle size and smallest particles size are both in the range of 4-10 mm, and the breaking strength of the smallest particle size portion in the body-temperature environment of ruminants is 0.5-5.0 N. The present invention further provides a method for orally administering a medicine to ruminants and a ruminant feed containing the orally administered agent.

The invention provides an animal rumination monitoring method and device. The device comprises a processor and stretchable resistor chains. The stretchable resistor chains are connected end to end to form a closed ring, and the processor is electrically connected with the stretchable resistor chains. The stretchable resistor chains are used for stretching with opening and closing of the mouth root portion of an animal to produce resistance change data representing the opening and closing degree of the mouth root portion, and the processor is used for obtaining the number of resistors connected in the resistor chains based on resistance change quantity data when receiving the resistance change quantity data, comparing a value of the number of the connected resistors with a preset number value, obtaining a current time value when the value of the number of the connected resistors is greater than or equal to the preset number value, calculating a shewing period based on at least two continuous time values, comparing the shewing period with a preset reference period and determining that the animal is in a rumination state if the shewing period is greater than the preset reference period. The device is simple in structure and can monitor whether animals are in the rumination state or not.

The invention provides a breeding method of goats. The breeding method comprises the following steps: 1) preparing a goat house: constructing the goat house on a mountain land with the altitude of 1100m-1200m and good ventilation and water drainage, and constructing a grassland containing Chinese herbal medicines at the periphery of the goat house; 2) adopting a feeding method combining captive breeding and stocking; and 3) carrying out epidemic disease prevention and control, and managing the goat house. The breeding method has the beneficial effects that the mountain land with the altitude of 1100m-1200m and the perennial rainfall of about 40mm-50mm is selected and used for feeding so that the growth speed of the goats is improved and the morbidity of gastrointestinal diseases in a growth period of the goats can be reduced; forage for the goats in a grazing process is clean and fresh and one part of the forage belongs to Chinese herbal medicine plants; the goats eat the forage and do rumination digestion, so that mutton contains a medicinal antibody and the taste of the mutton has a high nutritional value; and the body status of eaters is enhanced and the immune capability is improved.

Provided is dry and hard particle forage for rams. The dry and hard particle forage is prepared from corn, bean pulp, dry wine residue powder, cornstalk powder, alfalfa meal, fish meal, sweet potato residues, oats, Chinese herb powder, baking soda, calcium hydrophosphate and table salt. The dry and hard particle forage has the advantages that nutrition balance is achieved, and picky eating can be effectively avoided; herba epimedii, semen cuscutae and Chinese chives can improve the breeding capacity of the rams, and the fish meal and the dry wine residue powder can improve the palatability of the forage and increase the forage intake; the dry and hard particle forage can guarantee normal rumination of the rams and greatly reduce energy consumption of rumination actives of the rams; the Chinese herb powder can improve the immunity and breeding capacity of the rams and reduce epidemic diseases. In a contrast test, comparison between a ram test group fed with the dry and hard particle forage and a control group fed with common sheep feed shows that the ejaculation amount and the sperm density are significantly increased, and the sperm motility rate is significantly increased; during the test, the rams take the forage actively and have vigorous sex drive, and therefore the breeding capacity is greatly improved.

The invention discloses a green fodder pulverizer which comprises a chopping and cutting cabin and a pulverizing cabin. The chopping and cutting cabin and the pulverizing cabin are connected, and the chopping and cutting cabin is located on the upper portion. A feed inlet is formed in one side of the chopping and cutting cabin, and a cutter device is mounted inside the chopping and cutting cabin. A discharge outlet is formed in the lower side portion of the pulverizing cabin, and a fly hammer device is mounted inside the pulverizing cabin. A baffle with a filtering hole is mounted below the fly hammer device, and a conveying device used for discharging green fodder is mounted below the baffle. The baffle is located in the pulverizing cabin and separates the fly hammer device and the conveying device in different spaces, and the filtering hole in the baffle is arranged close to the discharge outlet. A stirrer is arranged between the chopping and cutting cabin and the pulverizing cabin, and the stirring direction is opposite to the rotating direction of the cutter device in the chopping and cutting cabin. The green fodder pulverizer is a rumination slow-discharging type anti-blocking pulverizer, and is good in pulverizing effect, high in work efficiency, simple in structure and convenient to operate.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a composite probiotic preparation added into ruminant feed, belonging to the technical field of animal feed processing. The preparation method comprises the following steps: carrying out activation culture on Candida krusei, Candida utilis and Streptococcus thermophilus used as strains, carrying out strain fermentation by using glucose and the like as raw materials and adding sodium selenite to convert the sodium selenite into organic selenium, wherein glycerol and other substances are generated in the fermentation process; and finally, adding corn flour as an adsorption carrier, and concentrating to obtain the composite probiotic preparation added into ruminant feed. The example proves that the probiotic prepared by the method has the advantages of high combination rate with rumination feed and no toxicity or harm, contains abundant glycerol and organic selenium, and enhances the absorptivity of the ruminant.

The invention discloses rumination and digestion promoting health care feed for sheep, and a preparation method of the health care feed. The health care feed is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 500-600 parts of black locust leaves, 2-3 parts of calcium chloride, 5-6 parts of lard oil, 1-2 parts of ginger powder, 32-34 parts of artemisia selengensis, 23-26 parts of turnip, 7-9 parts of mung bean flour, 54-56 parts of apple seed powder, 36-38 parts of barley bran, 8-10 parts of bone soup, 12-15 parts of herba taraxaci, 4-6 parts of peanut butter, 70-75 parts of soybean residue, 64-67 parts of cassava residue, 15-17 parts of water chestnut, 0.1-0.2 part of aspergillus oryzae, 7-8 parts of plecoglossus altivelis, 4-5 parts of aloe, 0.3-0.4 part of edible salt, 48-50 parts of broad bean powder, 13-15 parts of malt root powder, 1-2 parts of xanthan gum powder, 3-4 parts of dried tofu and 4-5 parts of egg shell powder. The health care feed is capable of promoting the functions of rumination and digestion of the sheep, adjust the microecological balance of sheep rumen, improve the absorption and utilization of the sheep for nutrient materials and increase the feed intake of the sheep.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a beef cattle feed additive from distiller's grains of corn. The method comprises the following steps: drying: carrying out drying treatment on fresh distiller's grains of corn to reduce the water content to be 10 to 20 percent; carrying out solid-state fermentation: mixing the drie distiller's grains of corn, wheat bran and corn flour according to the ratio of 17 to 2 to 1; adding 60 to 65 percent of water and inoculating a compound strain; keeping the temperature at 28 to 32 DEG C and sealing and fermenting; storing: storing by adopting a sealing cellar; paving one layer of hay on a cellar bottom and a cellar wall; filling the cellar with the fermented distiller's grains of corn; filling and compacting until the cellar is fully filled with the fermented distiller's grains of corn; covering a toxin-free plastic thin film and compacting by utilizing soil; covering four sides of the cellar by utilizing the toxin-free plastic thin film; compacting and tightly pressing by utilizing the soil to ensure that water is not leaked. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the growth of mildew and spoilage bacteria can be effectivelyinhibited; the fermented distiller's grains of corn have sufficient nutrients and less alcohol content; lying-down and rumination of beef cattle are facilitated, fattening is convenient to realize andthe slaughtering time is shortened.

The invention relates to a Chinese herbal medicine formula for treating colds of green goats in southwestern Shandong Province. The formula comprises Herba Plantaginis, Herba Taraxaci, Folium Isatidis, Herba Houttuyniae, perilla frutescens, wrinkled gianthyssop, mint, purslane, Ajuga decumbens Thunb., licorice root, Radix Platycodonis, apricot kernel, radix bupleuri, isatis root, Chinese magnoliavine, Divaricate Saposhnikovia Root, Ligusticum wallichii, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Humulus japonicus. The formula can treat poor appetite, slow rumination, coughs and other cold symptoms of green goats in southwestern Shandong Province, and also has the advantages of treatment effect improvement, cure time shortening, no medicine residual in the goats, no influences on the quality of mutton of the green goats in southwestern Shandong Province, and reduction of influences of treatment means on the abortion rate of pregnant green goats.

The present invention aims to provide feedstuffs for ruminants with high nutritional value capable of promoting rumination.

According to the present invention, feedstuffs for ruminants containing a kraft pulp derived from a lignocellulosic material are provided, wherein the kraft pulp has a Canadian standard freeness of 400 ml or more.

Milk cow individual rumination action detection equipment belongs to the detection technology of livestock individual behaviors. The equipment is formed by a single chip microcomputer, a GPRS (general packet radio service) module, a sound sensor module, a real-time clock, a storage and a power supply. The equipment is simple in operation, high in automation degree, convenient to use, low in manufacturing cost, fast in processing speed and strong in ream-time property.

The invention provides a domestic animal chewing analysis method and device and an electronic device. The domestic animal chewing analysis method and device are applied to the electronic device, and the electronic device is connected with an acquisition unit arranged at the head of a domestic animal. The domestic animal chewing analysis method comprises the steps that multiple pieces of pitch attitude data and multiple groups of chewing data are obtained, wherein the pitch attitude data and the chewing data are acquired by the acquisition unit; then, according to peak valley mean deviation values corresponding to each group of chewing data, whether the domestic animal is in a chewing state or not in time periods corresponding to the groups of chewing data or not is determined, and the chewing types in the corresponding time periods are judged according to the pitch attitude data corresponding to the time periods in the chewing state; it is ensured that the obtained pitch attitude dataand the chewing data can accurately represent the real situation of the domestic animal without domestic animal limiting, the chewing types are further accurately analyzed by utilizing matching of thepeak valley mean deviation values and the pitch attitude data to help a raiser master the feeding quantity and rumination situation of the domestic animal and carry out scientific feeding.

The invention provides a compound traditional Chinese medicine for treating damp-heat diarrhea of cows and a preparation method thereof, and particularly relates to a prescription for treating damp-heat diarrhea with clinical symptoms of semiliquid stool, stench smell, scanty yellow urine, reduction or waste of appetite and rumination, dispiritedness, body heat and thirst, red yellow oral cavity color, yellowish fur, scant sweat of nose and the like of cows and the preparation method thereof. The preparation method is simple in process and convenient to prepare, is safe and efficient in clinical application, and is low in price.