An elongated lever including structure at a first end for universal support from a stationary support and structure at the other end defining a handle. Further, the lever includes a central portion provided with animal body-embracing structure defining a recess opening outwardly of one side of the lever into which an animal body toward which the central portion is swung may be received and the lever is extendible intermediate its central portion and the first end thereof.

The present invention is a method of controlling noxious plant species. The method comprises identifying a target area in a foraging area, selecting a treatment period, selecting an ungulate specie, providing an animal feed supplement at a first deployment location in the target area, and introducing the selected ungulate specie to the animal feed supplement in the target area during the treatment period. The target is considered such because it includes a noxious plant specie. During the treatm...

An approach to monitoring, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment or conditioning of animals such as horses does not require use of restrictive equipment such as treadmills or force plates and that can provide either or both of more or less immediate or continuous processing of data to perform the monitoring or diagnosis. One or more wireless sensors are attached to the animal, for example, to measure motion-related parameter associated with one or more parts of the animal. Sensor data is received fro...

A device and method wherein positive pressure is applied in the sway of the back of an animal to prevent arching of the back to thereby prevent kicking and sidewise movement of the animal. The pressure member, which may be a cable or chain, is curved and flexible as as to fit the contour of the back and so as to be horizontally or longitudinally flexible and positionable as desired. A spanning bar extending down along the sides of the animal positively fixes the ends of the pressure member again...

A method of training animals provides for the creation of a recorded track taking into account a plurality of recording techniques for a particular sound source A stationary microphone is utilized to provide a first layer, a moving microphone as utilized to provide a second layer and a pair of microphones proximate to a live animal's ears near a sound source provide three inputs to a mixer. The layers are then mixed and then processed by a processor to provide to a recorder/burner to provide a c...

A hand held training device capable of producing discreet clicks when operated by a user, having a control by which the user can vary the volume and/or tone of the clicks produced.

A device for tattooing an animal such as a rodent includes a tweezers-shaped body having resilient arms with free ends, which can be squeezed together and when released will return to a spaced apart, rest position. A needle carried by the free end of one arm is aligned with a hole in the free end of the other arm, so that when an area of animal, e.g. a rodent toe, is placed between the fee ends and the arms are pressed together, the needle penetrates the animal to deposit ink beneath the skin of...

In order to deter deer from a protected area, a baited, shock-producing deer repellent device is provided having an improved electrode configuration with the bare wire alternating positive and negative electrodes being substantially semicircular in shape and with the electrodes being variously sized and arranged to form an approximate hemisphere and with the electrodes being substantially parallel and substantially equidistant from each other. This configuration provides an approximately even ch...

A highly automated method and system for providing individual animal electronic identification, measurement and value based management of cattle in a large cattle feedlot. Through the use of (1) a computer system integrated with (2) automatic individual animal identification (3) multiple measurement and remeasurement systems with automatic data input and (4) a cattle handling and sorting system, animals are individually (a) identified and (b) measured by weight, external dimensions and character...

A highly automated method and system for providing individual animal electronic identification, measurement and value based management of cattle in a large cattle feedlot. Through the use of (1) a computer system integrated with (2) automatic individual animal identification (3) multiple measurement and remeasurement systems with automatic data input and (4) a cattle handling and sorting system, animals are individually (a) identified and (b) measured by weight, external dimensions and character...