BR102017005407A2 - closed loop system for liquid nutrition, hydration, inoculation of beneficial microbiota and carrier for other beneficial agents for newly hatched birds from hatching to dispatch - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a closed circuit for liquid nutrition, hydration, beneficial microbiota inoculation, and carrier for newly hatched birds during the hatching phase until the time of dispatch, that is, from the onset to hatching. time of bird dispatch, maintaining the nutrition of baby birds, comprising: - hatcher (10) housing the strollers (1) with trays (2); - hatcher (10) disposed within a seat where a closed circuit (13) of nutrition liquid is circulating; - the hatcher (10) simultaneously receives illumination (14) through a light source; - The liquid leaving the interior of the seat passes through a heat exchanger (15), where a pump (16) transfers this liquid to the upper reservoir (17), where it follows in the closed circuit (13).

Description

(54) Title: CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID NUTRITION, HYDRATION, BENEFICIAL MICROBIOT INOCULATION AND CARRIER FOR OTHER BENEFICIAL AGENTS, FOR NEWLY CLOSED BIRDS DURING THE BIRTH STAGE UNTIL THE TIME OF EXPEDITION (51). 2/39; A01K 31/00 (73) Holder (s): TUFFI BICHARA, MARCELO ORTEGA, CASSIANO MARTINHO FERREIRA, CLÁUDIO LUÍS SCHELL, IVONEI PAZA (72) Inventor (s): TUFFI BICHARA; MARCELO ORTEGA; CASSIANO MARTINHO FERREIRA; CLÁUDIO LUÍS SCHELL; IVONEI PAZA (85) Start date of the National Phase:

16/03/2017 (57) Abstract: The invention refers to a closed circuit for liquid nutrition, hydration, inoculation of beneficial microbiota, and carrier agent, for newly hatched birds, during the hatcher phase until the time of dispatch, that is, during the onset of hatching until the time of the birds' dispatch, maintaining the nutrition of the baby birds, comprising: - hatcher (10) housing the carts (1) with trays (2); - hatcher (10) disposed inside a seat where a closed circuit (13) of nutrition liquid circulates; - the hatcher (10) simultaneously receive lighting (14) through a light-generating source; - the liquid that leaves the interior of the seat passes through a heat exchanger (15), where a pump (16) transfers that liquid to the upper reservoir (17), from where it follows in the closed circuit (13).

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CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID NUTRITION, HYDRATION, BENEFICIAL MICROBIOT INOCULATION AND CARRIER FOR OTHER BENEFICIAL AGENTS, FOR NEWLY CLOSED BIRDS, DURING THE BIRTH STAGE UNTIL THE EXPEDITION TIME.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] This present Patent Application for a closed circuit for liquid nutrition, hydration, inoculation of beneficial microbiota, and carrier agent of beneficial elements, for newly hatched birds, during the hatcher phase so far of the expedition, that is, during the beginning of the hatching until the moment of the birds' expedition, being the field of the invention turned to the segment of poultry hatcheries.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Fertile poultry eggs undergo the incubation process and are transferred to so-called hatchers, usually with 456 hours of incubation and the first birds to be born (hatch) begin at around 480 hours of incubation and the process usually ends with 504 to 510 hours of hatchers. Therefore, the first hatchlings are the birds that suffer most from water deprivation, dehydration and excessive periods within the hatcher.

[0003] Several studies suggest that newly hatched birds hydrated and fed early have a better survival and better performance during productive life and greater resistance to diseases.

[0004] Thus, the present invention appears as an innovation not only in the sense of providing better animal welfare and comfort, but also early nutrition, improving immunity to pathogens and increasing the survival and future productive performance of the bird.

TECHNICAL STATUS

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2/9 [0005] Along the way of technological development, several initiatives try to improve the conditions of comfort, hydration and nutrition of individuals in the prenatal or neonatal phase.

[0006] One of the first attempts at neonatal nutrition took place in the Netherlands with the HatchBrooder system of the Dutch company Hatchtech, which consisted of transferring the newly hatched chicks to independent and exclusive structures to receive these birds and keep them in water, food nutrition solid, heat and light for at least two to four days after hatching. The difficulties were shown in relation to the size and cost of the structures that practically had to double in size and it does not solve the problem of the window of birth that continues as it is.

[0007] Another recent attempt with the HatchCare system of the Dutch company Hatchtech, consists of using the same structure as the hatchers but employing a double bottom hatch tray, where newly hatched birds fall through holes to the second part of the tray and have access there food to solid food, water and light. The difficulties in this system lie in the fact that food and water are exposed to the environment of heat, humidity, down and contamination, and the birth trays must be exclusive, and many hatcheries must replace the set of birth trays with exclusive trays.

[0008] A recent attempt at in ovo nutrition, where in ovo vaccination machines are used at the time of egg transfer and inject beneficial nutrient and microbiota into the amniotic fluid. The difficulties with this system are that many nutrients can cause embryonic mortality and the amount injected is usually very small, not exceeding the amount of 0.1 to 0.2 ml, losing the nutritional or hydration effect.

[0009] The document MU7502016-5, filed on 08/09/1995 and published on 04/14/1998, under the title of “Semiautomatic Thermal Incubator, which describes an incubator that

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3/9 aims to increase the hatch percentage in the incubation of eggs and facilitate the obtaining of chicks or young birds for planting improvement. In the process of using the 'Thermal Semiautomatic Incubator' the user opens the door, turns on the arrow, fills the water reservoirs, placing the plugs and regulating the temperature in the thermostat using the barometer. After reaching the ideal temperature, place the eggs and turn them according to the instructions. The user must open the plugs on the indicated days and spray the eggs with water to facilitate pecking and breaking the shell. The incubator should only be switched off 12 to 24 hours after the hatching is completed.

[0010] Another state-of-the-art document is ο PI9407646-1, deposited on 09/22/1994 and published on 01/21/1997, under the title APPLIANCE TO OPTIMIZE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPENSES AND GROWTH RATE FOR LIVING CREATURES ; PROCESS TO OPERATE A COMPUTER; PROCESS TO DETERMINE THE USE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NUTRIENTS IN A POPULATION; AND COMPUTER SYSTEM TO DETERMINE THE EFFICIENCY OF USING NUTRIENTS IN A POPULATION BASED ON THE THEORETICAL AVERAGE GAIN OF THE POPULATION PERIOD. The invention describes an apparatus and process for determining the earliest possible time that a living creature reaches its maximum growth rate. This information is then used to calculate the optimal parameters to obtain the maximum return or investment. A computer determines the optimal number of birds per flock, type and amount of feed, length of time between hatching and sale to the feed processor, etc. The computer consists of a microprocessor, random access memory, storage device, a keyboard, a computer screen, a printer and a mathematical coprocessor.

[0011] This document reported in the previous item aims to obtain a maximum growth rate in the shortest possible time, using a microprocessed system for the calculation of parameters considered ideal. However, like other known equipment, it does not solve

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4/9 the problem of nutrition and colonization of beneficial microbiota, therefore not fulfilling the objectives of the present invention.

PROBLEMS INHERENT TO THE STATE OF THE TECHNIQUE [0012] Currently, there is a birth window between 24 (twenty four) and 30 (thirty) hours between the first bird to be born (to hatch) and the last bird to be removed from the hatcher. Thus, the birds dehydrate and delay receiving nutrition, hydration and beneficial microbiota, in addition to the time of preparation of the birds, with selection, vaccination and pre-dispatch waiting room, which may arrive more than 12 (twelve) or 16 (sixteen) hours.

[0013] Technically, the slowness of this process causes dehydration, exhaustion and use of the nutritional reserves of the liver and yolk, reducing survival, playing against animal welfare and harming the future productive performance of the bird.

OBJECTIVE OF THE INVENTION [0014] It is the objective of the invention to present the technology of a closed-loop system for liquid or semi-liquid nutrition, hydration and colonization of beneficial microbiota and carrier of other beneficial factors for newly hatched birds, during the hatching phase until the time of dispatch, that is, during the onset of hatching until the time of dispatch of the birds.

ADVANTAGES OF THE INVENTION [0015] In addition to those evident from the previous description, the following advantages can also be highlighted:

- Safe closed-loop system for nutrition, hydration, and carrier of any factors promoting improvement and response of birds, example of immune response and resistance to diseases, hydration, growth factors of newly hatched birds;

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- Greater survival of birds, greater comfort and well-being of the animal, reduction of losses due to dehydration, immediate nutrition of enterocytes, reduction of exhaustion of birds due to early consumption of reserves, hydration of tissues, immediate inoculation of beneficial microbiota.

[0016] In the productive aspect, a higher survival rate, greater weight gain, better feed conversion and greater resistance to pathogens are expected; more productive and healthier birds.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0017] The invention will be explained below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which they are represented:

FIGURE 1: General view of the hatcher incorporating the system according to the invention;

FIGURE 2: Shows the detail of a tray according to the hatcher of the previous figure, according to the invention;

FIGURE 3: Shows a general flowchart of a hatchery process, where steps (C) and (D) are those in which the system of the invention is applied, particularly for feeding and hydration of the baby chick birds and newborn birds.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [0018] THE CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID NUTRITION, HYDRATION, INOCULATION OF BENEFICIAL MICROBIOTA AND CARRIER FOR OTHER BENEFICIAL AGENTS, FOR NEWLY HYDROUSED BIRDS DURING THE TIME OF THE BIRTH OF THE BREEDING Invention Patent, comprises a system that is applied in phases (C) and (D) of the flowchart of Figure 3, particularly from the cleaning of the hatcher rooms, where the trolleys (1) with trays (2) are, until dispatch of chicks (3).

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6/9 [0019] Just for a better understanding of an incubation process, it starts, in phase (A), or egg room (4) where the eggs arrive from the production farms (5) and the classification occurs and storage in controlled temperature rooms (6).

[0020] Step (B) is called egg incubation (7), where incubators are with controlled temperature and humidity (8) and, also, the transfer to hatchers occurs at 19 days (approximately 456 hours) (9), being that, in this stage, vaccination is done in ovo.

[0021] In step (C) is where the system of the invention comes into operation, being the so-called hatchers (10), where the baby chicks start birth with approximately 480 (four hundred and eighty) hours of incubation (11); birth is completed between 504 and 510 hours of incubation (12).

[0022] In step (D), or expedition (3), the system of the invention remains in use, nourishing the birds in such a way that the baby chicks are allowed, in the drawing, preparation and expedition (3B) stage to deprive themselves of water for another 12 hours.

[0023] The system according to the invention, particularly in phases (C) and (D), uses the hatcher (10) housing the trolleys (1) with trays (2), arranged inside the hatcher (10) where it circulates in circuit closed (13) for a solution capable of promoting nutrition / hydration and microbiota inoculation for newly hatched birds or any other factor considered beneficial to the birds, and the circuit receives illumination (14) through a source of light that can emit light in the most appropriate spectrum the birds, while the solution that leaves the interior of the hatcher (10) passes through a heat exchanger (15), where a pump (16) transfers this solution to the upper reservoir (17), from where continues to return to the closed circuit (13).

[0024] Each aforementioned tray (2) has a conduit (18) of liquid nutrition that passes through the entire interior of said tray (2) in which nipples (19) are distributed where the birds contained in the hatcher (10) access

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7/9 to nourish or hydrate or to receive in liquid or semi-liquid form the specific beneficial factors.

[0025] The inside hatcher set (10) has a system of, temperature varying between 32 ° C to 34 ° C, and relative humidity of around 75%. Therefore, when recirculating the nutrient solution, it is necessary the installation of a heat exchanger (15), where it is cooled to a temperature range appropriate to the age and conditions required by the baby chicks, from where a pump pushes this liquid up to the upper reservoir (17), where the nutrient solution returns to the closed circuit of the invention.

[0026] With the present invention, the closed system maintains the characteristics of nutrition, hydration and other benefits to newly hatched birds up to a period of time between 22 and 30 hours after birth considering the period within the Nascedouro.

[0027] The product used in this closed circuit operates using a preferential nutritional composition, which gathers all the nutrients for feeding and hydrating baby birds, ensuring not only survival while in the hatcher, but also when in the pre-expedition and, after dispatch, the specific times in each of these phases being specified throughout this specification. The nutritional composition, in a preferred embodiment, is shown below, namely:

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Babo Nutritional Solution per kg of solution finished Maltodextrira CAS 9050-36-6 Espessarte Stabilize g, kg 400 Betaine Hydrochloride (Trimethylglycine Hydrochloride) CAS 590Y6-5 EU AAFCO mg / kg 700 Etoxiquin CAS 91-53-2 Antioxidant mg / kg 150 Calcium Lactate 327 Acidity Logger mg / kg 120 Calcium Butyrate Acidity regulator mg / kg 250 Sodium bicarbonate 500 iiii Artiaglutirar te Acidity Logger mg / kg 500 Carvacrol CAS 499-75-2 JECFA Flavoring mg / kg 150 Cinnamaldehyde CAS 104-55-2 JECFA Flavoring mg / kg 150 PROBIOTIC ADDITIVES mg / kg 200 DL-Methionine CAS 59-51-8 EU AAFCO mg / kg 200 L-Lysine CAS 56-87-1 EU AAFCO mg / kg ISO Threonine L-Threonine CAS 72-19-5 mg / kg 90 V E UI / Kg 25 VIT B1 mg / kg 1 VIT B2 mg / kg 4 vrr B6 mg / kg 2 VIT B12 mcg / kg 13 PANT. ACID mg / kg 8 NIACIN mg / kg 20 FOLIC ACID mg / kg 1 Zn mg / kg 40 Mn mg / kg 40 Ass mg / kg 5 I mg / kg 1 excipient q.s.p g / kg 1,000 any substitutes f rutooligosaccharides mananoligosaccharides vaccines and immunizers of proven benefit in birds other additives and bird performance improvers

[0028] Nevertheless, the same system is adapted to complement the deprivation period that also occurs in the pre-expedition phase of the birds, the nutrition is adjusted to a waiting time in the expedition that can be at least 12 to 16 hours.

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9/9 [0029] Therefore, the system is designed to act both in the hatcher phase and also in the baby chick room (waiting / expedition), which will guarantee safe transport and survival and well-being of the birds also in the waiting and transport.

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Claims (5)

CLAIM 1) CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID NUTRITION, HYDRATION, BENEFICIAL MICROBIOT INOCULATION AND CARRIER FOR OTHER BENEFICIAL AGENTS, FOR NEWLY CLOSED BIRDS DURING THE BIRTH PHASE UNTIL THE TIME OF EXPEDITION AND THE SYSTEM). (C) the incubation process, particularly from the cleaning of the hatcher rooms, where the trolleys (1) with trays (2) are located, to the dispatch of the chicks (3); characterized by understanding: - hatcher (10) housing the carts (1) with trays (2); - hatcher (10) disposed inside a seat where a closed circuit (13) of nutrition liquid circulates; - the hatcher (10) simultaneously receiving lighting (14) through a light-generating source; - the liquid that leaves the interior of the seat passes through a heat exchanger (15), where a pump (16) transfers that liquid to the upper reservoir (17), from where it follows in the closed circuit (13). 2) CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID NUTRITION, HYDRATION, INOCULATION OF BENEFICIAL MICROBIOTA AND CARRIER FOR OTHER BENEFICIAL AGENTS, FOR NEWLY CLOSED BIRDS, DURING THE BIRTH PHASE UNTIL THE TIME OF EXPEDITION, according to 1 claim, according to each claim, according to the 1 mentioned tray (2) has a conduit (18) of liquid nutrition that passes through the entire interior of said tray (2) where the nipples (19) are distributed for nutritious feeding of birds in the hatcher (10). 3) CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID NUTRITION, HYDRATION, BENEFICIAL MICROBIOT INOCULATION AND CARRIER FOR OTHER BENEFICIAL AGENTS, FOR NEWLY CLOSED BIRDS, DURING THE BIRTH PHASE UNTIL THE TIME OF EXPEDITION, in accordance with 1 and 2, according to the 1 by the liquid that will circulate inside the hatcher (10); therefore, at the time of recirculating the nutrient solution, it is necessary to install a heat exchanger (15), where it is cooled to a temperature range suitable for age and Petition 870170017558, of 03/16/2017, p. 22/29 2/2 conditions required by baby chicks, from where a pump (16) pushes this liquid up to the upper reservoir (17), where the nutrient solution returns to the closed circuit of the invention. 4) CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID NUTRITION, HYDRATION, INOCULATION OF BENEFICIAL MICROBIOTA AND CARRIER FOR OTHER BENEFICIAL AGENTS, FOR NEWLY CLOSED BIRDS DURING THE BIRTH STAGE UNTIL THE TIME OF EXPEDITION, according to 3 and 2, according to 1 , characterized by the system maintaining the nutritional characteristics of newly hatched birds up to a time interval between 24 and 30 hours after birth. 5) CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID OR SEMI-LIQUID NUTRITION, HYDRATION, BENEFICIAL MICROBIOT INOCULATION AND CARRIER FOR OTHER BENEFICIAL AGENTS, FOR NEWLY CLOSED BIRDS DURING THE BIRTH STAGE UNTIL THE TIME OF EXPIRATION, WITHIN THE PERIOD OF, WITH THE EXISTING TIME 2 and 3, characterized by the fact that in the birds' expedition, the nutrition is adjusted for a survival of 12 to 16 hours, also helping in the waiting room and expedition of the baby chicks. Petition 870170017558, of 03/16/2017, p. 23/29 1/3