Animal husbandry – Milkers – With automatic control
Patent
1996-04-25
1998-04-28
Price, Thomas
Animal husbandry
Milkers
With automatic control
A01J 700
Patent
active
057432090
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
While dairy farming is by now a centuries old business, the economic realities of modern life, as well as the governmental requirements for sanitary milk production and handling and qualitative control of milk to be publicly marketed, provide additional challenges for dairy farmers. The quantity and quality of milk produced on a dairy farm of course originates with the quantity and quality of milk produced by each dairy animal, whether it be cow, goat, ewe, or other milk producing animal. Information concerning the quantity and quality of milk produced by each dairy animal, and understanding and management of that information, can provide dairy farmers with useful information with which to better manage the operation of a modern dairy farm, improve herd selection, prevent illness end increase profits.
Dairy control agents or officials exist in all developed countries. In the U.S.A. they belong to Dairy Herd Improvement Association, Inc. (D.H.I.A.) They may belong to professional groups or associations or to government administrations depending on how the dairy profession is organized in a specific country. Such officials can provide certified milk control data.
In general, in all developed countries, dairy control agents temporarily install their calibrated milk meters, from which they make a proportional sample. This sample is obtained by mechanical and manual means. Then the samples are bottled and labelled for transportation to a district laboratory where they are analyzed the day after, sometimes 2 days to as many as 8 days, after sampling actually occurs. The laboratory returns the results of the analysis and the bottles are washed and re-used. In practice the results are returned from the laboratory about one week after the analysis, and evaluated by the dairy control agent about 10 days, or more frequently about one month, following sample collection at the farm.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is intended to provide a system for greatly improving milk quality control by milk control agents or officials and to reduce costs, the system being in compliance with the guidelines of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR). It is also intended to provide an inviolable, transportable and automated control system. It is also intended to improve the ability of dairy farmers to monitor and control milk production at dairy farms. It is also intended to obtain certified data from milk control offices.
It is a further object to provide real-time instantaneous analysis of milk from each dairy animal, i.e., any domesticated milk producing animal, at an individual dairy farm, thereby largely eliminating dangers of pre-analytical errors due to poor or confused milk samples, or degradation of samples during shipping and storage before analysis.
It is a further object to provide immediately available test results on milk samples thereby permitting immediate remedial steps to improve milk quality.
Ultimately it is still a further object of the present invention to provide a system of organizing information by which the desirable genetic make-up of individual dairy animals of a dairy herd may be improved over time.
The advantageous system of the present invention for monitoring and controlling milk production at a dairy farm, includes the use of a linked system of computers and data input devices to provide a system for identifying each dairy animal with a unique alpha and/or numeric code with a validation system for checking and confirming that the animal code exists in the herd data base, that there are no code duplicators and that the corresponding animal was not already milked during the current session, measuring the individual quantities and coordinates of the points of the milk flow curve per animal, herd and session, sampling of milk produced by each dairy animal; and real-time instantaneous qualitative analysis of a proportional milk sample from each animal which is representative of the quality of the total milking, since the content of various constituents, l
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Bazin Serge
Bechu Andre
La Federation Francaise De Controle Laitier (F.F.C.L.)
Price Thomas
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