JPH0884541A - Method for controlling livestock - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a method for controlling livestock without employing a watchman. CONSTITUTION: This method for controlling livestock is to read an individual recognition code from a data carrier 1 carried by a farm animal when the animal drinks water from a watering vessel 2 by an antenna head, etc., as a demodulating means. The individual recognition code is transmitted to a home station 5 through a transmitting unit 4, summarize the data by a treating device in the home station and judge a farm animal which doesn't take water to be the animal in an accident.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a livestock management method.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Livestock such as cattle grazing may encounter an accident such as escape or death during grazing.

[0003] Conventionally, a caretaker goes around the grazing land for livestock while grazing and manually performs confirmation work to escape or
The current situation is to identify dead livestock.

[0004]

As described above, there is a problem that manual management requires a great deal of labor. An object of the present invention is to provide a management method capable of managing livestock unattended.

[0005]

According to the livestock management method of the present invention, a data carrier in which an individual identification code is written is attached to a livestock to be managed, and a water drinker of the livestock is carried by a livestock ingesting water. A demodulation means for reading the individual identification code from the data carrier is attached, and the livestock in which the accident has occurred is specified based on the result of totaling the individual identification codes read by the demodulation means.

[0006]

According to this structure, when the livestock ingests water, the demodulation means uses the individual identification code from the data carrier carried by the livestock based on the habit of the livestock coming to the water fountain and ingesting the water. To read. The results of this reading are totaled, and the livestock that have not taken water are determined to have lived in the accident.

[0007]

EXAMPLES The livestock management method of the present invention will be described below with reference to specific examples shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.

The data carrier 1 is attached to the ears of the cattle to be managed which are grazing on the pasture land A. The data carrier 1 is pre-written with its own individual identification code as data.

The water drinker 2 installed on the pasture A has
The antenna heads 3a to 3d are attached to positions where the data carrier 1 attached to the ear of the cow approaches when the head is thrust and water is taken.

The individual identification codes read by the antenna heads 3a to 3d are transmitted to the base station 5 by radio waves via the transmission unit 4. The transmission unit 4 includes a multiplexer 6, a demodulator 7 and a transmitter 8 as shown in FIG. The multiplexer 6 sequentially switches the antenna heads 3a to 3d to perform excitation and data reading.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, when there is a cow near the antenna head 3b and ingesting water, the antenna head 3b is excited and modulated from the data carrier 1 by an individual identification code. Response signal is the antenna head 3b
Is input to the demodulator 7 via. Antenna head 3a,
When 3c and 3d are excited, the response signal is the demodulator 7
Not entered in.

The response signal input to the demodulator 7 via the antenna head 3b is demodulated by the demodulator 7 into an individual identification code, and the transmitter 8 modulates the carrier with the individual identification code to transmit from the antenna 9 to the base station 5. Send to.

The power consumption of the transmission unit 4 may be covered by the water drinker 2 or a solar cell attached to the transmission unit 4. The base station 5 includes a receiver 11 that receives an electric wave from the transmitter 8 with an antenna 10 and demodulates the received electric wave, and a receiver 1
1 and a personal computer 12 as a processing device for reading and summing up the individual identification code generated at the output of 1.

The personal computer 12 is a receiver 11
The individual identification codes generated in the output of are sequentially read and stored, and the individual identification codes stored are summed up at regular intervals,
Among the managed cows, identify the presence or absence of water and the accidental cow.

[0015] With this, the occurrence of an accidental cow in an accident can be automatically detected without manual intervention. In the above embodiment, the case of one water drinker 2 in the pasture A has been described as an example, but when there are a plurality of water drinkers 2, the antenna heads 3a to 3d are transmitted to each water drinker. By providing the unit 4 and making the carrier frequencies of the radio waves of the respective transmission units 4a, 4b, ... Different, the base station 5 in this case can receive and demodulate the carrier frequencies of the respective transmission units 4 as shown in FIG. A plurality of receivers 11a, 11b, ...
Similarly, by using a multiplexer 13 which is connected to No. 2 and which is sequentially switched at regular time intervals, the individual identification codes collected by all the water drinkers 2 are summed up by a single personal computer 12, an accident is similarly encountered. The occurrence of accidental cattle can be detected automatically without any manual intervention.

In each of the above-described embodiments, the individual identification code read by the antenna head 3 of the water drinker 2 is transmitted by radio waves to the base station 5.
However, the individual identification code may be transmitted to the base station by optical communication using a wire or an optical fiber.

In each of the above-mentioned embodiments, cows that have not visited for water intake have been extracted, but cows that have frequently visited for water intake have been extracted, or the water drinker 2 has been occupied for a long time. Cows can also be extracted automatically. Since cows that frequently visit the water are likely to have fever, it is possible to promptly administer therapeutic treatment based on the extraction result.

[0018]

As described above, according to the livestock management method of the present invention, a data carrier in which an individual identification code is written is attached to the livestock to be managed, and the livestock drinker of the livestock carries the livestock ingested. Install a demodulation unit that reads the individual identification code from the data carrier that is operating, and identify the livestock that caused the accident based on the result of totaling the individual identification codes read by the demodulation unit. Can be detected without.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a livestock management method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a transmission unit according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a base station of another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A grazing land 1 data carrier 2 water drinker 3a to 3d, 3 antenna head 4 transmission unit 5 base station 11 receiver 12 personal computer [processing device]

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A demodulation means for mounting a data carrier having an individual identification code written on livestock to be managed, and reading the individual identification code from the data carrier carried by the livestock that has ingested water in the water drinker of said livestock. And a livestock management method for identifying livestock in which an accident has occurred, based on the result of totaling the individual identification codes read by the demodulation means. 2. A livestock for transmitting the read result of the demodulation means to a base station by a radio signal, and summing up the individual identification codes sent from the demodulation means of the water drinker at the base station to identify the livestock in which the accident has occurred. Management method.