A system that includes a persuasion delivery device to deliver a persuasion to an animal to persuade the animal into a walk-in analysis zone for conducting an examination session. The system includes a set of sensors to sense in real-time at least one biological parameter to create real-time biological data. Each sensor has a sample collector in the walk-in analysis zone to capture a respective biological parameter. The system includes at least one processor to analyze the real-time biological data and at least one of: recommending animal feed nutrients based on the analyzed real-time biological data; identifying the at least one biological parameter on a user interface; and causing a feed making machine to make animal feed based on the recommended animal feed nutrients.

A vision system for determining an identity of an individual animal in a population of animals with known identity is provided. A first image sensor arrangement is configured to capture three-dimensional or thermographic images of the individual animal. A second image sensor arrangement is configured to capture two-dimensional images of the individual animal. Control circuitry is configured to obtain a first image of the individual animal captured by the first image sensor arrangement and to detect a body part in the first image, and in response to detecting the body part, obtain a second image of the individual animal captured using the second image sensor arrangement, and to identify the individual animal by comparing metrics of the second image with the reference data in a data storage.

Described herein are systems and methods for tracking an animal comprising—for example: an electronic device configured to be coupled to an animal, the electronic device comprising: one or more sensors comprising at least one of an accelerometer, a gyroscope, or a magnetometer, the one or more sensors configured to determine location or movement information relating to the animal; a memory device configured to store the location or movement information relating to the animal; a communication interface configured to wirelessly communicate the location or movement information to an external device; and a battery device for providing power the at least one of the one or more sensors or the communication interface; and a charging device configured to wirelessly provide power to the battery device.

Described herein are systems and methods for tracking an animal comprising—for example: an electronic device configured to be implanted within an animal and comprising: one or more sensors configured to determine information relating to the animal; a memory device configured to store the information relating to the animal; a communication interface configured to wirelessly and transcutaneously communicate the information to an external device according to predetermined priority rules; and a battery device for providing power to at least one of the one or more sensors or the communication interface.

The present invention discloses, inter alia, a free dome range system (FDR) comprising at least one front elevated rail (FER); at least one rear elevated rail (RER); a plurality of mobile units, each of the plurality of mobile units movable along a member of a group consisting of: the at least one FER, the least one RER and any combination thereof. The invention also discloses a method of positioning at least one of a plurality of mobile units in an FDR comprising steps of providing a free dome range system (FDR) comprising at least one front elevated rail (FER); at least one rear elevated rail (RER); and the plurality of mobile units, each of the plurality of mobile units movable along a member of a group consisting of: the at least one FER, the least one RER and any combination thereof. The present invention further discloses a dairy farm characterized by (a) an array of n stalls side-by-side along an X axis on the dairy animal's level. Each of the stalls is configured by means of size and shape to accommodate a dairy animal, having a main axis Y that is substantially perpendicular to axis X, a front side and an opposite rear side; and (b) a common elevated road surface provided on a higher level, above the stalls. This upper road surface extends along the X axis and is constructed to allow free passage of mobile units, including mobile longitudinal milking units, in a direction along the X axis, along the Y axis, a rotation about the X axis, a rotation about the Y axis, a rotation about the Z axis, and any combination thereof. The present invention further discloses means and method that in a stall, a gate located between the animal and the feeding line is thereby configured to at least temporarily prevent or otherwise limit free access of said animal to its feed.

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for recommending pet food for a pet is disclosed. The method includes receiving pet information corresponding to the pet from a client user device of a user associated with the pet and generating a set of attributes relating to the pet based on the pet information. The method further includes determining a temperature classification corresponding to the pet based on the set of attributes and determining a recipe score corresponding to the pet based upon the temperature classification and the set of attributes. The method further includes determining a pet food recommendation from a pet product database based on the temperature classification, and providing a diet recommendation indicating the pet food recommendation the user via a communication network.

A system for milking a group of animals, in particular cows, comprising an accommodation space in which the animals roam freely, and a plurality of fixed milking stations. A milk storage tank is placed outside the accommodation space. An automatic milking system for automated milking of the animals comprises at least one autonomous self-propelled trolley with milking cups. The milking system automatically connects the milking cups of the trolley to the teats of the animal. A milk discharge system connects the milking cups to the milk storage tank. The milk discharge system comprises flexible milk lines which are connected to the trolley. The trolley is connected to each milking station through a connection in an animal-free space adjacent to the milking stations. The flexible milk line is configured so the trolley can travel from the animal-free space into each of the milking stations while connected to the trolley.

A system for location of animals and/or objects in an environment includes a signal processing and signal generation system consisting of electromagnetic tags on animals (or other objects) in an environment (typically a three dimension outdoor natural environment) where the animals or objects are physically present at arbitrary locations, and an electro-magnetic signal generating, signal receiving, and signal processing system that can move through or in relation to the environment. The system can compute the location and identity of the animals or objects based on signals received from their associated tags, including the calculated location of the ID tags, which function as “Reader-Locators.” The calculated location is enhanced by information about the environment provided by maps, satellite photos, GPS, GIS and/or other data specific to the probability of the location of the animals or objects within certain regions of the environment. The system includes a physical and electromagnetic modeling operation that is interactive with the environmental information derived from the actual environment, either historically or in “real-time” as the monitoring process occurs.

Disclosed herein is a system (10) for storing a plurality of information items on a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag (12). In this but not all embodiments, the RFID tag (12) is attached to an animal (15). The system (10) comprises a processor (12). The processor (12) comprises non-transitory processor readable tangible media in the form of flash memory (14) including program instructions which when executed by the processor (12) causes the processor to perform an embodiment of a method. Also disclosed herein is a method for storing information items.

The invention provides a conditioning device for conditioning at least one animal intended to experience a stressful event, such as e.g. slaughter, transport, and/or evacuation. The conditioning device comprises a controller configured to: obtain an identifier associated with the at least one animal; obtain an input indicative of a period of time in which said at least one animal receives a positive stimulus at a first location; control a lighting unit arranged for illuminating the first location to illuminate the at least one animal with a lighting characteristic at least partly during said period of time, and store an entry linking said identifier to said lighting characteristic in a memory. Complementary thereto, the invention further provides a lighting device for illuminating at least one animal intended to experience a stressful event, wherein the at least one animal is conditioned to a lighting characteristic with the conditioning device according to the invention, wherein the lighting device comprises: a light source; a communication interface for communication with a memory; a detecting unit configured to determine the identifier of the at least one animal; a control unit configured to retrieve, with the communication interface, an entry linking said identifier to said lighting characteristic from said memory, and to control the light source to illuminate the at least one animal with said lighting characteristic during said stressful event.