US 12,075,759 B2
Dairy cattle breeding status indicator technology
T. Boyd Dingus, Spring Valley, WI (US); and Ky Garrett Pohler, College Station, TX (US)
Assigned to Mark L. Anderson, Hudson, WI (US)
Appl. No. 17/048,386
Filed by Mark L. Anderson, Spring Valley, WI (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/027999
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 16, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/204529, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/762,038, filed on Apr. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0100220 A1, Apr. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. A01K 29/00 (2006.01); A61D 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 29/005 (2013.01) [A61D 17/002 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bovine estrus detection device, comprising
a generally rectangular base having sides and ends, the base having a predetermined length and a predetermined width, the width being less than the length, the base having a first side and a second side, and wherein the first side of the base has a central region having a first color and end regions having a second color, the second color being different from the first color;
an adhesive disposer on the second side of the base for coupling the base to a female cow or heifer; and
a removable coating disposed over the first side of the base, the removable coating being exposed for contact by male or female cows mounting the female cow or heifer which the device is attached, and adapted to being removed by such mounting mate or female cows, wherein during use, exposure of the first color or disappearance of the second color is indicative of detector actuation.