The present invention relates to a livestock management system. The system includes a stockyard. A suspended herder is provided for herding livestock in the stockyard. Advantageously, the herder facilitates the removal of people from within confined spaces where animals are present within the stockyards, whilst still enabling controlled stock movements to be safely, calmly, and efficiently performed.

A system for examining an animal that includes a kiosk housing having an analysis zone. The system includes a persuasion delivery device in the analysis zone. The system includes a dispensing machine to dispense an animal attractant to the persuasion delivery device. The system includes a set of sensors located in the analysis zone to sense real-time data related to health of an animal. The set of sensors includes at least one sensor to sense within the analysis zone at least one biological parameter of the animal related to the health. A method is provided using the system that autonomously guides the animal to the analysis zone by a predisposition of the animal to hunt for an animal attractant so that biological parameters of the animal related to the health of the animal are sensed in a stress-free or reduced stress environment.

Systems and methods for detecting that the animal has the allergy condition, determining a first quantity of a topical application medium and a first quantity of an allergen based at least in part on one or more attributes of the animal, providing a first topical application compound, the first topical application compound comprising the first quantity of the allergen and the first quantity of the topical application medium, and applying the first topical application compound to one or more ears of the animal one or more times to treat the allergy condition.

An end-to-end animal care solution provides transportation and care services for animals. For instance, transportation of animals to/from a pickup/dropoff location may be provided by one or more buses and grooming services, daycare services, boarding services, training services, spa services, and/or veterinary services may be provided may one or more “ranches.” This provides an easy and safe way for owners to give their pets a healthy, pleasant, and engaging experience without having to drive their pets to the actual pet care location.

Methods, apparatuses, non-transitory computer readable storage media, computer systems, networks, and/or systems for monitoring, collection, analysis, use and tracking of personal data, biometric data, medical data, transaction data, electronic payment data, location data and other data to develop a profile for one or more end user, pet, livestock, dairy cows, cattle or other animal using radio and other frequency tags and relaying data from EMFID tag interactions to a database that can be accessed by members of a network, and further including the use of unmanned surveillance vehicles, satellites or hand-held devices for monitoring, collection, and/or analysis of EMFID data.

The present invention is a method for overcoming the challenge of acquiring good quality animal nose pattern images for biometric recognition caused by the moisture present on the nose surface, by removing the moisture or by pairing moisture removal and the application of an astringent or pigment prior to image capture.

The present invention relates to a companion animal management method, and more particularly, to a companion animal management method including transmitting information about a companion animal to the outside.

The present invention provides a quick release monitoring tag holder attached to cow's neck by a collar, comprising a first slot and a second slot configured for accommodating said collar therein; and a recess, provided in between said slots, configured for accommodating an identification tag having an upper portion and relatively smaller bottom portion, which is at least partially accommodated within said recess.

This invention general relates to animal feeders, an animal feeding monitor and a method of training an animal to use a feeder. An animal feeder may have a housing comprising an aperture for a food bowl (8) and having a door for covering the aperture, the feeder comprising a door mechanism to control movement of the door over the aperture, wherein the feeder comprises a sensor to detect when an animal has moved away from the aperture, and the feeder is configured to be operable in a training mode wherein the door mechanism is operable to control the door to cover a portion of the aperture in response to a said detection and to respond to one or more later said detections by controlling the door to cover a portion of the aperture larger than the preceding said portion.

A movable and modular device (100) for dynamic weighing of animals includes an identifying module (1) and a weighing module (2). The identifying module (1) includes a supporting structure (11), a processing module (12), a solar panel (13), an antenna (14), and an identifier (15); and a weighing module (2) comprising: a base (20), at least one pair of sidewalls (21), at least one weighing platform (22), at least one load cell (23), and at least one amplifier and transmission box (24). The device (100) is capable of providing the precise weight of each animal passing over the scale, wherein weighing can occur both when the animal stops on the scale and when it moves on the scale, and especially having movable characteristics, without the need for the animals to move from one area to another through a passageway formed between these two areas.