A rearing system for keeping farm animals, in particular poultry animals. The rearing system having at least one light source for illuminating the animal bodies of the farm animals with light, wherein the at least one light source is designed as a UV-B light source which is configured to emit UV-B light onto the animal bodies.

The invention relates to a device (1) for use in collection and removal of slurry or similar from a sty, a sty comprising such a device and to a method of installing a device at a sty, such as a pig sty, wherein the device comprises an one-piece body (2) having one or more funnels (3) wherein each funnel comprises at least one upper opening (3a) having an upper horizontal area enclosed by an upper edge (3a) and a lower opening (3b) having a lower horizontal area enclosed by a lower edge (3b), wherein the upper horizontal area is larger than the lower horizontal area, and the inside (3) of the funnel is thus extending from the upper opening to the lower opening of the funnel, an encapsulation (4) enclosing the funnel from the lower edge of the funnel to the upper edge of the funnel, such that a ventilation space (5) is defined within the one-piece body between the encapsulation and the funnel.

Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling activities of Drosophila organisms are provided. In one aspect, a method includes acquiring, using a first activity detector, imaging data tracking movements of the Drosophila organisms, and acquiring, using a second activity detector, bioluminescence data corresponding to a neural activity of the Drosophila organisms. The method also includes correlating, using the acquired data, a behavioral activity and neural activity of the Drosophila organisms, and determining, using the correlation, an activity profile for the Drosophila organisms. The method further includes providing, based on the activity profile, a stimulation to the Drosophila organisms to control at least one of the behavior activity or the neural activity over a time period extendible to a nominal life cycle of the Drosophila organisms.

A method of temporary storage of a domesticated animal can include providing a space defined by a door and top, bottom, side, and back surfaces, wherein the door is configured to be opened based on identification based on a payment method. An animal cage can include at least one top wall, at least one bottom wall, at least one back wall, at least two side walls, and a door, wherein the door is hingedly attached to at least one of the at least one top surface, at least one bottom surface, one of the at least two side surfaces, and wherein the door is configured to be opened based on identification based on a payment method.

A mobile indoor controlled apiary system includes a mobile foundation, a plurality of insulated panels configured for modular assembly to form a structural envelope on top of the mobile foundation, and a removable shell configured for covering the structural envelope. The system further includes a data collection system for gathering environmental data within the structural envelope, and a climate control system configured for regulating environmental conditions within the structural envelope.

A farm system comprising a plurality of smart tags which are each configured to be worn by an animal, a transmitter and receiver unit for wireless communication with the smart tag, one control unit which is communicatively connected to the transmitter and receiver unit and a farm unit which can be controlled by the control unit. Each smart tag comprises at least one sensor and is configured for wirelessly transmitting information obtained by one of the sensors to the transmitter and receiver unit, wherein the transmitter and receiver unit is configured for supplying the received information to the control unit and wherein the control unit is configured for processing the received information and, at least on the basis of this processed information, controlling at least a farm unit and/or generating a report signal for indicating to a user of the system that an activity is to be carried out.

Systems and methods directed to small animal containment and/or breeding include a container top having a vent and a feeding chute. The vent is a plurality of similarly sized holes or a void configured to receive and/or be covered by an exchangeable vent plate or cover. The feeding chute preferably provides a cradle to receive food that can be accessed by a contained animal through the thickness of the chute. A water aperture through the container top is configured to receive a ball bearing sipping tube which is operatively coupled to a water supply implement, but a chew shield is preferably formed integrally as part of the container top to prevent access to through the container top to the water supply implement. Hollow, single-end capped tubes may be provided to extend through one or more apertures formed through the top to allow for small animal or insect extraction.

A collapsible sound reducing pet container when fully assembled forms an enclosure having a generally rectangular volume with manually disassembleable top, bottom, front, rear, left, and right panels. The front panel defines a cutout having an area less than that of the front panel, and at least one of the panels comprises multiple layers of dissimilar soundproofing material. An electric fan, mounted to one of the panels, becomes energized in response to presence of an animal within the enclosure. Each of the top, front, rear, left and right panels is sized to allow all of the panels to be stacked between and enclosed within the top and bottom panels, to collapse the container for transport and storage.

A dairy animal-monitoring system for a herd of dairy animals includes a dwelling space for the herd of dairy animals, one or more controllable heat stress-reducing means for reducing or preventing heat stress in the dairy animals, and a control system for the dairy animal-monitoring system. The control system further includes a subset-determining device for determining or inputting a subset of the herd, an identification system for identifying the dairy animals from at least the subset, and a heat stress-detecting system for detecting a value of a heat stress indicator with a dairy animal of the subset. The control system is configured to control the one or more heat stress-reducing means in several of the dairy animals on the basis of the at least one detected value.

The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling the air climate in an insect rearing climate housing. The system comprises in combination an insect rearing climate housing and an aeration system. The insect rearing climate housing comprises clusters of one or more stacks of crates with immature phases of insects, which stacks of crates comprise at least two ventilation openings associated with each crate. The aeration system comprises an air control unit with a database. The database comprises a reference table with conditioned air properties in relation to one or more input parameters. The aeration system further comprises aeration devices connected to the air control unit adjacent to each stack of crates. The aeration devices comprise a plurality of exit openings. The exit openings are arranged for providing airstreams over the immature phases of insects through the ventilation openings in each individual crate. The method comprises steps of retrieving one or more input parameters for the air control unit per cluster of crates, the air control unit determining appropriate conditioned air properties of the airstreams based on the retrieved one or more input parameters, and for each individual cluster of crates separately, the air control unit setting the determined conditioned air properties of the airstreams.