JP2003325077A - Method for foreseeing sexual excitement/delivery date of cattle, pig, horse or the like and finding disease by analysis of numerical value of vibration, and attachment type apparatus for foreseeing sexual excitement/delivery date and finding disease used therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for foreseeing the sexual excitement/delivery date of cattle, pig, horse, etc., and finding diseases such as fascioliasis, ovarian tumor, etc., and an apparatus used therefor. <P>SOLUTION: The method for accurately foreseeing the sexual excitement/delivery date of the cattle, the pig, the horse, etc., by the analysis of numerical values of vibration, the method for readily finding diseases and the apparatus used therefor are provided. An attachment type vibrometer 1 is driven by the operation of a start switch 4, intermittent numerical values of vibration, continuous numerical values of vibration, brake or stop numerical values of vibration, etc., are generated, the information of the numerical values of the vibration is transmitted, inputted, memorized in a centralized computing apparatus, graphs such as a bar graph, a line graph, etc., are drawn, the sexual excitement data of the cattle, the pig, the horse, etc., is foreseen by the sexual excitement foreseeing function 13 of the centralized computing apparatus 2 based on analysis contents analyzed by an analysis function 12, the delivery data after fertilization is foreseen by the delivery data foreseeing function 14 of the centralized computing apparatus 2 and a disease is found by the disease finding function 15 of the centralized computing apparatus 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is equipped with wearable vibrometers on legs, necks, jaws, etc. of cows, pigs, horses, etc., and vibrates and walks due to excitement caused by estrus of cows, pigs, horses, etc. Vibration numerical information such as status and stop status is transmitted, input, and stored in a centralized computing device such as a PC at each time, and the stored numerical vibration information is digitized, and the numerical analysis is used to analyze cows, pigs, horses, etc. Estrus prediction function, calving date and time prediction function, disease detection function, etc., a method for predicting estrus and calving date and time and disease of cattle, pigs, horses, etc., and wearable estrus and calving date and time prediction, disease detection used for it A device is provided.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the method of predicting the date and time of estrus and calving of cows, pigs, horses, etc. and the method of discovering illness rely on the intuition of the breeder or ask a specialist veterinarian / semen to make a diagnosis. There were many ways to do it, and many were inefficient and too late. Recently, when the cow is guided to the milking parlor in order to know the estrus period, which has been adopted only for dairy farming, a method of reading the number of steps with a sensor attached to the gate has been adopted, but these have made the device larger and milking. Only the total number of steps from time to next milking is known, and the conception time is inaccurate, so the conception rate is poor, and these have to be improved. In addition, since only the milking cows passed through the gate, no other Japanese cows, Holsteins, and heifers could be found.

In foreign countries, when the milk temperature at the time of milking is lowered to around 39 ° C, the cow is judged to be in estrus and is preparing for insemination, but when the milk temperature begins to drop. By standard, insemination was often too late.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a wearable vibrometer is attached to the legs, neck, jaw, etc. of cows, pigs, horses, etc.
Vibration due to excitement caused by estrus of pigs, horses, walking conditions,
Vibration numerical information such as stop status is transmitted, input, and stored in a centralized computing device such as a PC at each time, and the stored numerical vibration information is digitized.
It proposes a method for predicting the estrus / delivery date and time of a horse, etc., and the detection of diseases such as flukes and ovarian pus, and the device used for that method, which is a problem with conventional prediction methods and findings. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an accurate prediction method and device that eliminates inefficiencies and inaccuracies, eliminates them, and simplifies them.

[0005]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention is proposed in order to eliminate the drawbacks of the prior art, and a method of accurately predicting the date and time of estrus and calving of cattle, pigs, horses, etc. by analyzing vibration values, A method for facilitating the discovery of a disease will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. A wearable vibrometer 1 is attached to a leg, neck, jaw, etc. of a cow, a pig, a horse, etc. with a wearable band 3, and the wearable vibrometer 1 Although the wearable vibrometer 1 is started by operating the start switch 4 attached to the, the charging state of the battery 5 is constantly checked and replenished because the wearable vibrometer 1 is driven by the built-in battery 5. Is.

When the wearable vibrometer 1 is driven by operating the start switch 4, the intermittent vibration numerical value 17, the continuous vibration numerical value 18,
The static or vibration stop numerical value 19 etc. is generated, and the vibration numerical value information is transmitted to, input to and stored in, a centralized computer, and is displayed in a chart such as a bar graph or a line graph. Is also displayed.

It has been found that the intermittent vibration numerical value 17 is generated by the excitement caused by estrus of cows, pigs, horses, etc., and the vibration is intermittently generated when the cows, pigs, horses, etc. are in estrus. . Estrus proved from April 1, 2002 14
In the experiment up to the day after, two 14-month-old heifers whose average number of steps per day were 2000 to 3000 were put into one paddock (Koranjo) free of charge and tested,
10 days later, at 14:00 on April 10th, the number of steps of one suddenly increased,
It recorded a value of 375, peaked at midnight, had 497 steps per hour, and other cows in the same room had 14 hours at the same time.
There were only four steps, which was 3.45 times. The total number of steps on April 10 was 6046, and the signs of estrus lasted for 6 hours, then began to decline, and there was no activity for 1 hour. The next day,
She was diagnosed with true estrus by rectal examination and was inseminated at 16:00.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, when observing the movement on April 10 with partial estrus data by time zone of 14-month-old heifers, although the slump continued from the previous night, it was 3 pm at 1 am
Recorded 15 times at 2 am and 39 times at 3 am and 2
The time increased, and then it decreased to 2 times at 4 am and 0 times at 5 am, but it rose sharply to 133 times at 6 am, and then decreased to 85 times at 7 am and 5 times at 8 am. It became 173 times at 9am, 204 times at 10am, jumping for 2 hours, and then decreased to 42am at 11am.

[0009] At about 12:00 am, the number of times jumps sharply because it is usually put out on the playground and exercised, so that the number of times rises sharply for 3 hours, 198 times at 12:00 am, 218 times at 1:00 pm, and 375 times at 2:00 pm. , Then 33 pm
0 times, declined to 176 times at 4 pm and dropped to 233 times at 5 pm, 313 times at 6 pm, 34 times at 7 pm
Soared 5 times and again for 3 hours, then 26 pm at 8 pm
It has dropped once.

However, at 9 pm, it rapidly increased for 4 hours at 332 times, at 10 pm at 350 times, at 11:00 pm at 366 times, and at 12:00 pm at 497 times, and then began to decline.
After no activity for one hour, the next day, a rectal examination revealed a true estrus, and he was inseminated at 16:00.

Since this time zone is late at night, it is usually 1
The number of steps per hour was 30 or less, and it was easy to find estrus.

[0012] When a 6-year-old milking cow, which is scheduled to be abandoned after 40 days of calving, is tested in a tethered condition, the number of steps is generally smaller than that of the free one because of tethering, and at most 1 hour. With less than 150 steps, he behaved like other young cows on the playing field. The estrous symptom was found 10 days later from 16:00 on April 10th to 3 o'clock at 18:00, and an average of 116 times was found, and as a result of the rectal examination in the morning of the next day, the estrous symptom began. However, the condition was not perfect.

On the 12th of the next day, from 3pm to 6pm, 3 hours
As in the previous day, the average value of 134 times persisted, and the result of the next morning examination showed that this was true estrus.
I was inseminated at times.

However, it is difficult to find the estrus of the connected multi-breed cattle, and it is necessary to pay sufficient attention to judge the number of steps.

On a sunny day, all heads are brought out to the playground from 13:00 to around 15:00, and a continuous vibration value 18 is to be generated at that time. Cows, pigs, horses, etc. are put out on the playing field, and when the cows, pigs, horses, etc. walk / exercise, a continuous vibration numerical value 18 is generated as a numerical value.

In the static or vibration stop state due to sleep or the like, the static or vibration stop numerical value 19 is shown, but the wearable vibrometer 1 is accurately used as the vibration numerical information including fine vibration.
The vibration numerical information input to the vibration measuring unit 6 of the wearable vibrometer 1 is input to the vibration measuring unit 6 of the wearable vibrometer 1 via the transmission function 9 in the wearable vibrometer 1. 10 is always wirelessly transmitted.

The vibration numerical value information transmitted to the receiving function 10 of the centralized computer 2 is stored in the memory function 8, and the memory function 8 is used.
With the charting function 11 that the vibration numerical information stored in the centralized computer 2 is built into the centralized computing device 2, it is charted into a bar graph, a line chart, etc. at each time, and the charts such as the bar chart, the line chart, etc. Analysis function 12 to analyze signs of horses, etc.
The estrus predicting function 13 built into the centralized computer 2 analyzes the estrus of cows, pigs, horses, etc. on the basis of the analysis contents analyzed by the analysis function 12, and the delivery after fertilization is performed. The delivery date and time is predicted by the delivery date and time prediction function 14 built in the centralized computing device 2, and the delivery date and time is further predicted.
A disease is found by the disease finding function 15 built into the.

During the demonstration of the present invention, it was demonstrated on a dairy farm where 50 dairy cattle were raised. It was proved that the dairy cattle breeding in multi-breeding was difficult to find estrus compared to the free breeding, but It was proved that estrus can be discovered by observing well. Especially in free breeding, it was possible to detect estrus with 100% probability.

In the present invention, an apparatus used for predicting the estrus / delivery date and time of cattle / pigs, horses and the like by analyzing vibration values and a method for facilitating the discovery of a disease will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Wearing band 3 to be attached to the legs, neck, chin, etc. of target animals such as pigs and horses, a battery 5 equipped with a start switch 4 and a display 7, and driving the device inside the device, and an intermittent vibration value 17, a continuous vibration numerical value 18, a vibration measuring unit 6 for measuring vibration numerical values such as static or vibration stop numerical values 19, and a wireless transmission 20 of vibration numerical information transmitted including a minute vibration to the centralized computing device 2 which is separated. It is composed of a wearable vibrometer 1 having a built-in function 9 and a centralized computing device 2 that receives vibration numerical information constantly transmitted from a vibration measuring unit 6 of the wearable vibrometer 1.

The centralized computing device 2 has a reception function 10 for receiving the vibration numerical information transmitted from the vibration measuring unit 6 of the wearable vibrometer 1, a storage function 8 for storing the transmitted vibration numerical information, and a reception function. With the charting function 11 that charts the vibration numerical information received and stored by the function 10, the analysis function 12 that analyzes charts such as bar graphs and line charts charted by the charting function 11, and the analysis function 12 Cattle, pig,
An estrus predicting function 13 for horses and the like, a delivery date and time predicting function 14,
The disease detection function 15 is incorporated.

The present invention was developed exclusively for dairy farming, and the vibration numerical information is continuously transmitted by radio transmission 20 to the centralized computer 2 such as a personal computer for 24 hours every hour.

Therefore, the peak time and the estrus end time can be known from the estrus start time, and the insemination time can be accurately known.

In addition, the number of steps can be accurately known in real time even for cows that are not milked, and grazing cows, connected cattle,
It is now possible to easily find out the estrus of breeding beef and Japanese black beef.

Another feature of the present invention is that it has a disease detection function 15, and in the case of cattle, diseases such as flukes and ovarian tumors can be easily detected. Became.

Among cattle, pigs and horses, when cattle is taken as an example, there are various cattle diseases, and the most common one is fluke. Due to a parasite called fluke, which parasitizes the liver, a rapid decrease in milk production has been observed, and ovarian tumors are also known. Ovarian tumors are known to occur from the epithelium of the ovary or metastasize from the stomach, intestine and mammary gland.

In the case of diseases such as hepatic flukes and ovarian tumors, a great change has been observed in the numerical value of vibration of cows per hour. In other words, it was found that the number of steps increased compared to the normal state.

[0027]

According to the present invention, not only the drawbacks of the prior art are solved, but also vibration numerical information such as vibration due to excitement caused by estrus of cows, pigs, horses, walking conditions, stopping conditions, etc. are stored in a personal computer or the like. By transmitting, inputting and storing to a centralized computer, digitizing the stored vibration numerical information and analyzing the numerical values,
It is possible to predict the estrus and delivery date of cows, pigs, horses, etc. by the function of predicting estrus of cows, pigs, horses, etc. It was

The present invention was developed exclusively for dairy farms, and since the vibration numerical information is continuously transmitted by radio transmission to a centralized computing device such as a personal computer for 24 hours every hour, peak time from estrus start time And the time to finish the estrus is known, and the time to inseminate is now accurately known.

In addition, even if the cow is not milked, the number of steps can be accurately known in real time.
It is now possible to easily find out the estrus of breeding beef and Japanese black beef.

Furthermore, since it has a disease detection function,
In the case of cattle, it has become easier to detect diseases such as flukes and ovarian tumors.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a wearable estrus / parturition date / time prediction and disease detection apparatus used in the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a wearable estrus / delivery date prediction and disease discovery method used in the present invention.

[Figure 3] Partial estrus data by time of day for 14-month-old heifers

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Wearable vibrometer 2: Centralized computing device 3: Wearing band 4: Start switch 5: Battery 6: Vibration measurement unit 7: Display 8: Memory function 9: Transmission function 10: Reception function 11: Charting function 12: Analysis function 13: Estrus prediction function 14: Delivery date and time prediction function 15: Disease detection function 16: Wearable estrus / delivery date prediction, disease detection device 17: Intermittent vibration value 18: Continuous vibration value 19: Static or vibration stop value 20: Wireless transmission

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A wearable vibrometer is attached to the legs, neck, jaw, etc. of cows, pigs, horses, etc., and the intermittent vibration value due to excitement caused by estrus of cows, pigs, horses, etc., walking, exercise, etc. The continuous vibration value associated with is input to the vibration measurement section of the wearable vibrometer accurately as a vibration value including minute vibrations, along with the static or vibration stop value indicating the status of static or vibration stop due to sleep etc. The numerical vibration information input to the vibration measuring unit of the vibrometer is constantly wirelessly transmitted to the remote centralized computing device by the transmission function, and the transmitted numerical vibration information is input to the centralized computing device and stored in the memory function. Charting function that incorporates numerical information into the centralized computing device into a bar graph, line graph, etc. by time, and charts such as bar chart, line graph, etc., time of estrus and delivery of cows, pigs, horses, etc. Time of day , And analyzed by the analysis function of analyzing and signs of the disease, based on the analysis contents analyzed by the analysis function,
The estrus predicting function, which is built into the centralized computer for estrus of cows, pigs, horses, etc., predicts the time of estrus, and predicts the date and time of delivery after fertilization with the delivery date and time prediction function built into the centralized computing device. Furthermore, a method for detecting illness and calving date and time of estrus and calving of cattle, pigs, horses, etc. by analyzing vibration values, which is characterized by finding a disease with a disease detection function built into a centralized computer. 2. A main body, which is equipped with a wearing band to be attached to legs, necks, jaws, etc. of cows, pigs, horses, etc., a start switch, a display, and a battery for driving the apparatus inside, and an intermittent operation. A vibration measurement unit that measures vibration values such as vibration values, continuous vibration values, static or vibration stop values, etc., and transmission of numerically transmitted vibration value information including minute vibrations to a centralized computing device that is separated by wireless transmission. A built-in vibrometer having a built-in function, and a centralized computing device that receives numerical vibration information that is constantly transmitted from the vibration measuring unit of the wearable vibrometer. Receiving function to receive the vibration numerical information transmitted from the vibration measuring unit, storage function to store the transmitted vibration numerical information, chart function to chart the vibration numerical information received by the receiving function, and chart function Bar graph charted with , A cow characterized by having a built-in analysis function for analyzing charts such as line graphs, estrus prediction function for cattle, pigs, horses, etc. analyzed by the analysis function, calving date prediction function, and disease detection function -A wearable estrus / delivery date prediction / disease detection device used for predicting estrus / delivery date / time and disease detection method for pigs, horses, etc.