摘要 |
PCT No. PCT/IB95/00679 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 25, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 25, 1996 PCT Filed Aug. 1, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO96/03859 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 15, 1996An automated modular system for officially controlling the quantity and quality of milk production at a dairy farm site, including the steps of: assigning each dairy herd an identification code; assigning each milk producing animal in each herd a unique animal identification code; providing measuring quantitative milk production from an individual animal using a milk flow meter temporarily connectable with a milking machine for an individual animal, which milk flow meter is capable of continuously weighing milk produced per unit time by an individual animal during a single milking session; providing qualitative analysis of the composition of a sample of milk from an individual dairy animal, which includes an infra-red optical probe; providing system control and memory connected to the milk flow meter and to the qualitative analysis; entering a dairy herd code into the system control and thereby initiating control of the herd and accessing stored data for herd and each individual dairy animal therein; entering an individual dairy animal identification code in the system control when the corresponding individual dairy animal is present at the milking machine, thereby activating the milk flow meter; measuring quantitative milk production from the individual dairy animal; qualitatively analyzing a sample of milk from the individual dairy animal; detecting completion of milking session as indicated by milk flow meter, and storing in the system memory data from the milking session. |