Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Animal display or open work enclosure
Patent
1998-03-19
1999-09-14
Poon, Peter M.
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Animal display or open work enclosure
119447, 119479, 119512, 119519, 119521, 119527, A01K 101, A01K 102
Patent
active
059505656
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to an animal husbandry containment apparatus for containing and raising animals for market and to a method of raising animals.
The present apparatus is particularly designed for containing and raising pigs but can be modified in manner which will be known to one skilled in the art to make the system suitable for raising other animals including poultry.
It is well known that animals require, in the intensive farming situation which today's economics demand, an enclosure in which the animals are contained and housed with supply systems for supplying feed and water, extraction systems for extracting the manure and ventilation systems for communicating fresh air to maintain the temperature stable. As farming becomes increasingly important, the buildings and the farms are becoming also larger. Also there is an increasing specialization in animal husbandry so that animals are moved form one farm or location to another for the different stages of their life from birth to market. Disease is a significant problem in any such operation since the communication to a herd of a new disease by a recently arrived animal can cause destruction of the whole herd or at least significant losses in treating the disease.
One proposal for separate compartments for containing the animals which are collated together into a system is set out in a magazine article in "The Furrow" dated April 1981, which proposes a system known as "pig train" in which there is provided a series of compartments with the pigs spending about thirty days in each compartment and then moving from each compartment to the next. It is stated that the compartments are prefabricated and need only to be hoisted onto two concrete strips and connected to the heat, water and power supply.
However there remains a necessity for improvement in apparatus and methods for animal husbandry in view of these significant developments in the industry.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is one object of the present invention, therefore, to provide an improved apparatus and method for use in animal husbandry.
According to one aspect of the invention there is provided an animal husbandry containment apparatus comprising: horizontal top wall, two vertical end walls and two vertical side walls with the walls interconnected and structurally supported to define an integral, separately movable element; closed; define a manure containment area on the top of the bottom wall and below the slat floor, the manure containment area being closed by bottom portions of the end walls and the side walls; injecting fresh air into the vessel and an air flow outlet opening in one wall for release of stale air from the vessel; portion so as to communicate with the vessel to allow entry into and exit from the vessel of the animals;
According to a second aspect of the invention there is provided a method of animal husbandry comprising: bottom wall, a horizontal top wall, two vertical end walls and two vertical side walls with the walls interconnected and structurally supported to define an integral, separately movable element; closed; wall to define a manure containment area on the top of the bottom wall and below the slat floor, the manure containment area being closed by bottom portions of the end walls and the side walls and including discharge means for discharging manure from the containment area; for injecting fresh air into the vessel and an air flow outlet opening in one wall for release of stale air from the vessel; bottom portion so as to communicate with the vessel to allow entry into and exit from the vessel of the animals; in the vessel; location for raising the animals; receptacle for manure and supplying feed to the feeding means for raising the animals in the containment vessel.
Preferably the method includes transporting the animals in the containment vessel from the remote location to the husbandry location.
In one preferred mode of operation of the containment apparatus, the remote location comprises a production facility for the animal
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Abbott Yvonne R.
Battison Adrian D.
Poon Peter M.
Thrift Murray E.
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