British Technology Group Limited

Alfa Laval Agri Ab

Btg International Limited

Robert Christopher Hall

Michael J Street

Toby Trevor Mottram

Arthur Leonard Wilkin

Diane Susan Spencer

Benny Ornerfors

Jan Stein

Stephan Robert Lee

An apparatus and a method are provided for monitoring an animal and having a controller. According to a first aspect of the apparatus and method, the controller has a sensor adapted to sense a movement rate of the animal and to establish a value of the movement rate regarding the animal. According to a second aspect of the apparatus and method, the controller includes a sensor provided to allow establishment of the existence of the breath of the animal, and a heart rate calculation device for establishing a value of the breathing rate regarding the animal.

Method and an apparatus for monitoring an animal

An arrangement for the automatic application of milking apparatus to a milk animal including a milking apparatus store, a milking apparatus handling device including a milking apparatus carrier movable on the device and a teat sensor on the handling device together with at least one animal position sensor and a control unit responsive to the animal and teat sensors to operate the handling device, the arrangement being such that when an animal is sensed to be in milking position the control unit operates the handling device to take milking apparatus for a teat of the animal from the store in the carrier to a specific teat with the carrier moved to a sideways offset at a selected angle to the device and the teat sensor in range of the teat.

Automatic milking apparatus

Teat location for milking

Automatic milking

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St. Albans, United Kingdom

Robert Christopher Hall