Animal husbandry – Feeding device – Hopper and trough
Patent
1987-11-18
1989-11-07
Peshock, Robert
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
Hopper and trough
A01K 500
Patent
active
048784559
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a method and a device for very accurately metering a quantity by weight of food for being supplied to small livestock, such as poultry, which small livestock is present in a number of cages placed one behind the other. The outflow of food from a foodhopper filled with food, can be stop the moment when is determined that the receiving trough contains a sufficient quantity of food. This quantity of food corresponds to a certain desired quantity of food per animal multiplied by the number of animals to be fed. After the receiving trough has been filled it is emptied for example into a feed trough. The preference the device is provided with a sensor or the like which can scan an indicator which can be fastened to a cage, which indicator emits a signal indicating the number of animals present in that cage.
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Farmtec B.V.
Jaskiewicz Edmund M.
Peshock Robert
Price R. Thomas
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