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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2012
Applicants:

Karel Van Den Berg, Bleskensgraaf, NL;

Antoon Peter André Theelen, Etten Leur, NL;

Alexander Van Der Lely, Rotterdam, NL;

Inventors:

Karel Van Den Berg, Bleskensgraaf, NL;

Antoon Peter André Theelen, Etten Leur, NL;

Alexander Van Der Lely, Rotterdam, NL;

Assignee:

Lely Patent N.V., Maassluis, NL;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J 5/01 (2006.01); A01J 5/007 (2006.01); A01K 1/00 (2006.01); A01K 1/12 (2006.01); A01K 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01K 1/0023 (2013.01); A01J 5/007 (2013.01); A01J 5/01 (2013.01); A01K 1/12 (2013.01); A01K 3/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method of managing a group of dairy animals. More particularly, the invention relates to measuring one or more milk parameters, comparing this parameter to a criterion, and allowing an animal access to a pasture based on this comparison. The milk parameter is related to the composition of milk obtained from a dairy animal in as far as the composition is defined by at least one of the amount of protein and the energy intake of the dairy animal. The measured milk parameter is, for example, urea. Access to the pasture will be completely or partly blocked for a dairy animal having a high content of urea. This dairy animal is thus prevented from taking in an undesirably large amount of protein.


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