Patent ID: 8149125

Claim:
An animal management system comprising: a beacon coupled to a first animal, the beacon including a beacon transceiver, the beacon transceiver being configured to broadcast a beacon signal over a beacon range; the beacon signal including beacon information including an identifier of the animal; an animal tag coupled to a second animal, the animal tag including a tag transceiver and memory storing tag information, the tag transceiver being configured to transmit a tag signal including the tag information, the tag information including indicia identifying the second animal, wherein at least one of the beacon and the animal tag is configured to store proximity information indicating an amount of time the animal tag was located within the beacon range of the beacon and to transmit the proximity information; and a reader including a reader transceiver that is configured to receive the proximity information, the reader transceiver also being configured to transmit the proximity information, information generated by the reader upon receiving the proximity information, or a combination thereof.