Animal husbandry – Feeding device – Hopper and trough
Patent
1991-09-23
1992-11-17
Mancene, Gene
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
Hopper and trough
A61D 300
Patent
active
051633833
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides apparatus for inverting sheep into a reclined position for examination and treatment. The apparatus provides a holding bed that can be positioned to a first position to receive a sheep that is being inverted by the technique used by sheep-shearers, and can then be positioned to a second position which places the sheep in a reclined position on its rump and back with its feet pointing upward. The method of inverting the sheep into the bed, when the bed is located at its first position, is non-threatening to the sheep and the sheep ends up laying in the bed without struggling. When the bed is then shifted to its second, examining and treating, position, the sheep feels secure, unthreatened, and therefore reclines comparatively comfortably without struggling. The apparatus of this invention enables the operator to stand along side of the bed and take a sheep, passing in front of the bed, and turn the sheep as though he were going to position the it into a sheep-shearing position against his legs and knees, but rather turns it into that position into the bed rather than against his own legs and knees. This sheep-turning involves lifting the front end of the sheep sufficiently to unweight the sheep's front end, and turning the sheep, by pivoting the sheep about the hind foot nearest the operator, into the bed. As the sheep is pivoted upward and around its "near" hind foot, the haunch of its "near" hind leg catches the edge of the bed, causing the sheep to promptly sit down onto the end of the bed. Upon sitting down onto the end of the bed, the sheep is rolled by the operator into the bed and the bed is then positioned to its second position. The sheep then assumes a reclining position with its rump resting against the end of the bed and with its back laying along the bed. When the bed is in its second, examining and treating, position, the bed is itself inclined toward the end so that the sheep's rump will be supported by the end of the bed while it reclines in the bed.
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Cross, Jr. Harry M.
Mancene Gene
Price Thomas
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