The State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization (aro) (volcani Center)

The State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization (aro)

S.a.e. Afikim Computerized Dairy Management System

Agricultural Research Organization of the State of Israel Ministry of Agriculture

State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization

Ilan Halachmi

Aharon Hoffman

Haim Egozi

Gil Katz

Zeev Schmilovitch

Ephraim Maltz

Martin I Kutscher

Moran Sarig

Eithan Uner

Shelly Druyan

Natan Meir Barchilon

Shlomo Yhahav

Victor Bloch

Ehud Ram

Harel Levit

An arrangement for measuring the body temperature of a bird comprises: (a) an enclosure having at least one aperture configured for receiving a bird's head thereinto at least in a partial manner; (b) at least one receptacle mounted within the enclosure; at least one receptacle accommodating an attractor; (c) at least one remote sensing instrument configured for acquire thermal reading and calculating bird's temperatures. The remote sensor instrument and the receptacle accommodating the attractor are mutually disposed such that at least the bird's head is within a field of view of the remote sensor instrument.

System for measuring body temperature in poultry

A system for monitoring individual food intake of a livestock animal includes a calibration system configured to measure weight or volume of food intake of an animal over a pre-defined period of time and to calibrate a mathematical model for the animal based on the measure, a tracking system configured track animal eating behavior at times other than the pre-defined period of time and a computing system. The pre-defined period of time is less than three weeks. The mathematical model relates eating behavior of the animal and defined physiological parameters of the animal with food intake. The computing system determines food intake of the animal over a lactation period based on the mathematical model for the animal as calibrated and the eating behavior at the times other than the pre-defined period of time.

Method and apparatus for monitoring food intake of livestock animals

A method for monitoring food intake of livestock animals includes defining a relationship between time an animal spends at a feeding trough and the animals food intake during that time, monitoring the time an animal spends at the feeding trough and determining a quantity of food intake for the animal based on the time spent at the feeding trough and the defined relationship. Optionally, time an animal spends in a feeding position at the feeding trough is monitored and used to determine quantity of food intake.

Method and system for monitoring food intake of livestock animals

An NIR spectroscopy fluid analyzing system using a series of LED's, each having its own preselected center wavelength, as illumination sources. These wavelengths have overlapping spectral widths, such that the measurement covers a broad spectrum. The LED's illuminate the fluid sample sequentially, and subsequently the transmission absorbance through the sample and the reflectance or scattering from the sample is measured for the wavelength range of each LED. The measurements are performed using photodetectors. The concentrations of component parts of the fluid are expressed in the form of a polynomial, which is a function of the measured transmitted and/or reflected intensities, and of empirical coefficients, which are extracted by prior statistical analysis on measured intensities obtained from a large number of test samples having known concentrations of the component. A novel sample chamber, capable of performing optical absorption measurements on a flowing sample of fluid, is described.

Spectroscopic fluid analyzer

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Kfar Yehoshua, Israel

Ilan Halachmi