The Working Chute is comprised of a hydraulic gooseneck hitch; a torsion tube; a walking beam hydraulic lift; a walking beam axle; a main frame; alleyway escape gates; palpation gates; right and a left exit gates; two folding panels; outside panels; inside panels; a solar panel; a battery; and a hydraulic pump. The Working Chute can also be comprised of a dirt alleyway; a rubber floor; tires; a rolling tail gate; a drop in lock for extended panels; a chute panels parallel squeeze from both sides; a head gate squeezes from front; a section between tires for parallel squeeze; a hydraulic cylinder; a hitch; a hydraulic control for goose neck; a hydraulic control for rear lift; and a center point of walking axle which is a main pivot point. The Working Chute allows ranchers to access the livestock for palpation requirements such as marking, veterinary, or livestock care purposes. The Working Chute is both portable and that serves the various palpation needs of a livestock owner.

Systems and methods for sorting livestock including a livestock processing station, a computer network system, and a livestock routing mechanism. The livestock processing station confines the individual livestock, allowing individual livestock data to be collected and analyzed. The computer network system includes a programmable logic controller (PLC) for data input at the livestock processing station and a sorting application coupled to the PLC via a computer network, the sorting application for analyzing individual livestock data and assigning livestock to pens.

Systems and methods for sorting livestock including a livestock processing station, a computer network system, and a livestock routing mechanism. The livestock processing station confines the individual livestock, allowing individual livestock data to be collected and analyzed. The computer network system includes a programmable logic controller (PLC) for data input at the livestock processing station and a sorting application coupled to the PLC via a computer network, the sorting application for analyzing individual livestock data and assigning livestock to pens.

A method and control arrangement for controlling an automated crowd gate that operates to form a side of a holding area and moves in relation to an entrance of a destination in order to cause animals located in the holding area to move towards the destination, wherein location data defining individual positions of one or more animals located in the holding area is obtained from a real-time location system, location data, a current position of the crowd gate is obtained, and an operation of the crowd gate is controlled based on the obtained position of the crowd gate and the obtained location data of the animals.

A method and a system configured to differentially direct the passage of livestock animal; to signal the livestock animal; to identify an individual livestock animal and to monitor livestock activity are provided.

A feed intake system comprising one or more feeding stations comprising a trough with an animal feeding access, a support frame surrounding the trough, a base frame supporting the trough, a scale unit between the base frame and the support frame enabling the scale unit to weigh the contents of the trough, a station frame with an animal feeding access, a sensor assembly including a sensor or antenna located near the station frame animal feeding access, a control panel and a timestamp generator operationally associated with the sensor assembly and the scale unit, a CPU/processing computer operationally associated with the control panel, one or more animals, each having a RFID tag which transmits RFID signal and tag data, wherein the weight of the feed in the trough is collected and stored in a log file and wherein RFID signal and tag data are collected and stored in a log file.

A milking arrangement that includes at least a first and a second milking system for milking animals, a common entrance lane configured to allow a plurality of animals to enter the milking arrangement, and a guiding structure configured to guide each of the plurality of animals to either one of the first and second milking systems to be milked therein, where the guiding structure comprises a smart gate arrangement that guides each animal, after having been identified, to a respective one of the first and second milking systems depending on the identity of the animal, and where, depending upon selected periods of time, such as during periods of low expected or measured utilization of the milking arrangement, the smart gate arrangement guides each animal to a single one of the first and second milking systems irrespective of the identity of the animal.

A livestock weighing device that performs a secondary operation such as marking animals having a desired minimum weight with a visual indicia to aid sorting thereof. The weight of an animal moving across the platform actuates a cable system to move a shuttle associated with an actuator. The actuator changes condition to initiate a secondary operation, such as opening an outlet valve for a container of paint to dispense a quantity of paint onto the animal supported on the platform, when the sled is moved in a predetermined direction and the animal weighs more than the minimum required weight.

A device for directed animal traffic, having at least three sectors and a loop path, which is connected to each of the sectors, by a segment of the loop path that forms a transition region from the sector into the loop path, and the segment comprises a swinging gate, which allows an animal to enter the loop path from a sector and allows only one walking direction of the animal in the loop path, and a selection unit arranged after the swinging gate as viewed in the walking direction of the animal, to direct the animal into the sector or further along the loop path.

A system for managing objects is provided. The system comprises a data collection gateway and a plurality of apparatus. Each of the plurality of apparatus obtains parameters relating to objects in a farm from a server through the data collection gateway. The parameters include a reference threshold weight of the objects. Each of the plurality of apparatus collects weights of the objects through sensors. Also, each of the plurality of apparatus adjusts the reference threshold weight based on the obtained parameters to generate an adjusted threshold weight. Further, each of the plurality of apparatus sorts the objects to different areas in the farm based on the adjusted threshold weight and the collected weights.