Animal husbandry – Milkers – With signals – indicators – registers – and timers
Patent
1977-06-13
1979-11-13
Mancene, Louis G.
Animal husbandry
Milkers
With signals, indicators, registers, and timers
119 16, 119 17, 119 20, 119 28, A01K 100, A01K 102
Patent
active
041739477
ABSTRACT:
An efficient and highly productive method for rearing pigs wherein successive litters of pigs are placed in an enclosed building within a series of cages following weaning, the cages having floors of openwork construction to allow animal waste to pass therethrough and to keep the pigs in a dry condition. The animal waste passing through the floors of the cages is collected in an underlying trough where it is readily accessible for periodic inspection to locate any unhealthy pigs and thereby facilitate segregating them from the healthy pigs. Several times a day a sweeping flow of water is directed along the trough to flush away the animal waste from below the cage.
The cages are arranged in the building end-to-end in vertically aligned tiered relation to form respective upper and lower elongate series of cages, with each cage comprising a floor of openwork construction and an open-bottomed enclosure also of openwork construction restingly positioned on and supported by the floor. A plurality of upright cage supports arranged in longitudinally spaced pairs on opposite sides of the cages supportively carry the respective floors of the cages, with respective upper and lower elongate troughs being positioned underlying the upper and lower elongate series of cages for receiving and collecting the animal waste passing through the floors of the cages.
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Leach Daniel J.
Mancene Louis G.
Wellman John G.
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