Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Permanent building
Reexamination Certificate
2001-02-26
2002-06-18
Price, Thomas (Department: 3643)
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Permanent building
Reexamination Certificate
active
06405680
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a livestock-raising facility and a raising method which realizes effective raising with less labor force of livestock including pig, cattle, horse, sheep, deer and the like.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present inventor had obtained the Japanese Patent Nos. 1,503,506 and 1,503,507 each of which claims a pig raising system in a fermentation pigsty. Unlike these conventional systems, this system did not need a disposal facility for porcine urine and feces and is excellent in it generate little bad smell and there is little appearance of fly and maggot.
These inventions were epochal in that raw feces can be decomposed and generation of bad smell as well as appearance of fly and maggot may be prevented by excavating its floor to the predetermined depth below the ground level, forming therein a layer of raw dung, flooring on the raw dung material of sawdust, a wood cortex, chaff and the like, and mixing bacteria which promote fermentative decomposition.
Then, they were also excellent in that raising of a pig may be performed with less labor force by employing a self-propelled cutting machine which periodically turns over up and down the flooring material of the pigsty.
With regard to such pigsty, although labor force can be saved by mechanically cutting the flooring material with a self-propelled cutting machine, since manual operation is still necessary to supply feed and to periodical replace the flooring material, there are many aspects to be improved for saving labor force to realize rationalization of raising.
Although such flooring materials themselves are decomposed by fermentation, when care of a underside ground below the flooring material is not enough, maggot will appear, and it will also generate bad smell, and adjustment of humidity In the flooring material will depends on soil quality in the livestock-house.
After the inventors of the aforenoted patents had frustrated to develop the purposed technology, the present inventor obtained the above patents and has established an unique technology which offers cost effectiveness and easy application.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a live stock raising facility and raising method which can save labor force, is free from soil contamination and changes the flooring material into feed by further improving the conventional pig raising system.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
In a livestock raising facility wherein a carbon substrate consisting of sawdust, straw, chaff, stick, a wood cortex, woodchip, bark, duct and/or a mixture selected from these materials, which is made to further contain a mixed activated microorganism offering fermentative decomposition action on egesta, is laid on a floor as a flooring material, a raising line is formed by installing a plurality of raising spaces divided into a predetermined area by a partitioning member consecutively, a paddock is formed consecutive to each raising space on the side of the raising space, and a cutting machine agitating the bottom and surface of the flooring material is located to move freely over the above raising line, the livestock raising facility according to the present invention is characterized in that the each raising space is formed in a rectangular shape as horizontally viewed, and the partitioning member is attached by a hinge member to one end of the boundary between each raising space and a paddock formed consecutive to the raising space swing freely round a vertical axis from a state of providing a partition between the raising space and the paddock to that of providing a partition between the rearing space and the adjoining rearing space.
Thus, in accordance with the present livestock raising facility, when the above partitioning member is swung round the vertical axis of the hinge portion in turning over (agitating) a flooring material, a livestock in a raising space is driven therefrom into the paddock themselves by driving a partitioning member. Accordingly, operator may paddock a livestock easily into a paddock without escaping any pig by only swinging the partitioning member round the vertical axis in a short time. Moreover, each adjoining rearing space may be combined into single space along the raising line to turn over by a cutting machine.
Then, in a livestock raising method comprising the steps of laying a flooeing materials containing a carbonen substrate consisting of sawdust, straw, chaff, stick, a wood cortex, woodchip, bark, duct and/or a mixture selected from these materials, which is made to further contain a mixed activated microorganism offering a fermentative decomposition action on egesta being laid on a floor as a flooring material, forming a raising line by installing a plurality of raising spaces divided into a predetermined area by a partitioning member consecutively, forming a paddock consecutive to each raising space on the side of the raising space, forming a feedbox at a side end portion opposite to a raising space of the paddock or a side end portion opposite to the paddock of the raising space, and agitating the flooring material with the cutting machine located to move freely over the raising line, raising a livestock in the raising space, traversing a cutting machine to agitate a flooring material longitudinally along a raising line formed by installing a raising space consecutively which transfer a livestock in each raising space Into the paddock at predetermined intervals, after a new flooring material is formed thereby, a livestock is raised thereon, the livestock raising method according to the present invention is characterized in that the raising space is formed in a rectangular shape as horizontally viewed, one end of a partitioning member used for dividing a raising space from the adjoining rearing space is supported by a hinge member allowing the partitioning member to swing round a vertical axis at the boundary between a raising space and a paddock, a livestock in a raising space is driven into the paddock on the side of the raising space by swinging the partitioning member round the vertical axis of the hinge portion, and the cutting machine is traversed along the raising line as one space formed by installing a raising space consecutively to turn over the flooring material.
Thus, in accordance with this method, when the partitioning member is swung round the vertical axis of the hinge portion in turning over (agitating) a flooring material, a livestock in a raising space is driven therefrom into the paddock by themselves with a partitioning member. Accordingly, the operator may paddock a livestock easily into a paddock without escaping any pig by simply swinging the partitioning member in a short time and flooring material may be turned over with a cutting machine. Moreover, each adjoining rearing space may be combined into single space along the raising line to perform turning over by a cutting machine.
When a hinge member is designed to swing a partitioning member freely round a horizontal axis in the livestock raising facility, even in the case that there are bumps and dips on a floor in a raising space after the turning over (or a flooring material is consciously raised like a mountain), the partitioning member may be swung back to the original state irrelevant to the existence of bumps and dips (or raised sediment like a mountain) after turning it over.
Then, when the foregoing partitioning member is formed by a pale form element, a raising facility has a preferred form to enable it to enhance a ventilation between adjoining raising spaces for improving an environment in the raising space and to watch all raising spaces by operator.
Further, when the foregoing paddock is the substantially same to the raising space, it has a desirous form in raising large livestock such as cattle, horse and the like wherein these livestock may be raised in the paddock substantially similar to the adjoining raising space in performing a turning over operation on one side.
In a livestock raising facility wherein a carbon substrate consisting of
Marshall Gerstein & Borun
Price Thomas
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