Dairy herd management system

摘要

A dairy herd management system uses sensors to enable individual cows to be identified and certain characteristic such as milk temperature and conductivity to be measured to monitor the health of the animal. In this system there is i addition an olfactory sensor to detect the level of acetone on the animal's breath so that the central computer can register the presence of a metabolic disorder that can occur in the stomach of a ruminant. The acetone sensor could, alternatively, be sited at a feed or watering station or at the separation unit.