CA1219501A - Livestock feeder for cylindrical bales - Google Patents
Livestock feeder for cylindrical balesInfo
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Abstract
LIVESTOCK FEEDER FOR CYLINDRICAL BALES
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A livestock feeder device comprises an inner frame defined by an upper circular rail and a lower cir-cular rail resting against the ground together with a number of uprights for receiving and confining a cylind-rical bale. An outer frame around the inner frame is defined by a lower panel and an upper area having inclin-ed spaced bars arranged so that the animal can present its head through the bars but is halted at the shoulder.
The spacing between the inner and outer frames is such that the animal can reach the bale and is encouraged by the frame to eat with its head remaining between the inner and outer frames so as to deposit any waste in that area for subsequent eating. This avoids the trampling of any waste and thus reduces losses.
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A livestock feeder device comprises an inner frame defined by an upper circular rail and a lower cir-cular rail resting against the ground together with a number of uprights for receiving and confining a cylind-rical bale. An outer frame around the inner frame is defined by a lower panel and an upper area having inclin-ed spaced bars arranged so that the animal can present its head through the bars but is halted at the shoulder.
The spacing between the inner and outer frames is such that the animal can reach the bale and is encouraged by the frame to eat with its head remaining between the inner and outer frames so as to deposit any waste in that area for subsequent eating. This avoids the trampling of any waste and thus reduces losses.
Description
LIVESTOCK FEEDER FOR CYLINDRICAL BAIES
, _ _ BAC KGROUND _OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a livestock feeder for use in dispensing cylindrical bales to a group of animals and particularly cattle.
As cattlemen well know, merely depositing a large bale in a pen containing group of cattle leads to significant amounts of waste which can amount to 50% of the bale. This is because the animals tend to pick the best parts from thP bale and to break up the bale while so doing following which other parts of the bale become trampled and soiled and are no longer eaten.
This problem has to some extent been reduced by the manufacture of feeders which basically comprise a cylindrical frame within which the bale is placed, the frame including a number of bars which prevent the animal from entering the frame while allowing the animal to place its head thxough the bars to grasp the feed mater-ial for eating. However, there remain significant losses with a device of this type. The present inventor has observed carefully the use of such apparatus and has found that the reason for such losses is that the animal tends to place its head into the frame arrangement to ~z~
gxasp the best portion of the material and then tends to remove its head from the frame to eat the material and in some cases drops poorer material onto the ground around its feet which again becomes trampled.
It is one object of the present invention, therefore, to provide an improved livestock feeder of this general type which yet further reduces waste.
According to a first aspect of the invention, therefore, there is provided a feeder for receiving a large cylindrical bale for distributing the bale to a group of animals comprising a circular inner rail member arranged and dimensioned to surround the bale and to act as a confining member therefor, an outer frame arrange ment surrounding the rail member including a plurality of spaced bars arranged and dimensioned such that the bars prevent the body of the animal from passing through the frame to the inner rail while allowing the head and neck to pass therethrough, and means interconnecting the frame and the inner rail member arranged to support the rail member in spaced position from the ground and to maintain the spacing between the frame and the rail member such that the head of the animal can be received therebetween and such that the animal can reach the bale inside the rail member.
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According to a second aspect of the invention, there is provided a feeder for receiving a large cylin-drical bale for distribution to a group of animals comprising a cylindrical inner frame structure arranged and dimensioned ~o ~urround the bale and to act as a confining member therefor and compris ng an upper circu-lar rail, a lower circular rail for resting on the ground and a plurality of struts interconnecting the upper and lower rails, an outer frame structure surrounding the inner frame structure including an upper rail member, a lower rail member and a plurality of spaced bars arranged and dimensioned such that the bars prevent the body of the animal from passing through the frame to the inner rail while allowing the head and neck to pass there-through, and means interconnecting the outer frame struc-ture and the inner frame structure arranged to form an integral, movable structure having an open base defined by said lower rail and said lower rail member for resting on the ground and arranged to maintain the spacing be-tween the inner frame structure and the outer frame structure such that the head of the animal can be receiv-ed therebetween and such that the animal can reach the bale inside the inner frame structure with i.ts body out-sid~ the outer frame structure~
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The invention therefore has the advantage that the animal is kept out of the area immediately surround-ing the bale by the outer frame structure. In addition and more importantly the animal tends to eat with its head inserted between the bars of the outer frame struc-ture so that when it grasps a portion of the bale, it tends to retain its head within the outer frame structure in the space between the outer frame structure and the inner rail so that any material dropped from the eating process collects between the outer frame structure and the inner rail and remains untrampled and unsoiled.
Preferably the inner frame structure includes the inner rail which engages the ground so that this assists in confining the bale and if the apparatus is moved by pushing by the animals, the ground rail tends to move any material inside the inner frame along with the whole structure. This prevents the material from working its way out under the edges of the outer frame for trampling and waste.
A further preferred feature provides a skirt around the lower edge of the outer frame structure defin-ed between a bottom rail and an intermediate rail and formed of a sheet material so as yet further to confine ~Z~9S~
the feed material between the outer frame structure and the innex frame.
With the foregoing in view, and other advan-tages as will become apparent to those skilled in the art to which this invention relates as this specification proceeds, the invention is herein described by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, which includes a description of the best mode known to the applicant and of the preferred typical embodiment of the principles of the present invention, in which:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
. _ . _ _ _ Figure 1 is an isometric view of a livestock feeding device according to the invention.
Figure 2 is a cross sectional view of the device of Figure 1 including a bale and an animal eating from the bale.
Figure 3 is a top plan view of the device of Figure 1 including the bale and the animal.
In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The device as shown in the drawings includes an inner frame 10 and an outer frame 11. The inner frame 10 comprises an upper rail 12, a lower rail 13 and a plural-1.95031 ity of upright~ 14. The upper and lower rails 12, 13 are circular and of the same diameter so that the uprights 14 lie in the surface of a cylinder defined by the upper and lower rails. The dimension of this cylinder is just greater than that of the intended bale indicated in Figure 2 a~ 1~. In practice the diameter may be of the order o 6 inches to 1 foot greater than that of the bale and thus of the order of 7 feet in one example. The lower rail 13 is arranged directly at the bottom of the frame so that it rests upon the ground. There are 6 uprights 14 spaced equi-angularly around the rails 12 and 13 so as to form the substantially rigid cylindrical arrangement for qurrounding the bale 15 and retaining it in position.
The outer frame 11 comprises an upper rail 16, an intermediate rail 17 and a lowermost rail 18. Each of the rails is circular and of a diameter greater than the inner frame so as to form an outer frame surrounding the inner frame and spaced therefrom. A lowermost rail 18 is arranged in the same plane as the rail 13 so as to rest on the ground in a normal position of the device. The intermediate rail 17 is spaced upwardly therefrom at a distance of the order of 18 inches and is interconnected thereto by a number of uprights 19 which may again be 6 5~
in number and positioned at the same angular location as the uprights 14. Covering both of the rails 17 and 18 and the uprights 19 is a strip 20 of sheet metal thus closing the lowermost area oE the outer frame.
Between the intermediate rail 17 and the upper rail 16 is positioned a plurality of bars 21. The spac-ing between each bar and the next adjacent bar is arrang-ed such that the head and neck of the animal can pass between the bars but the shoulders of the animal and therefore the body are prevented from passing there-through.
It will be appreciated that the device is designed for use with a particular size of animal and particulaxly either a mature cow or a young animal and in such cases the sizing of the bars can be different to accommodate the different size of animal. In addition the bars are inclined relative to a vertical line lying in the cylinder defined by the rails so that the bar on the righthand side of the animal tends to extend across the top of its necX and the bar on the lefthand side tends to extend across beneath its neck thus increasing the tendency of the ~nimal to keep its head and neck between the bars. In other words the animal tends to feel that its head is confined within the area inwardly ~Z15~S~
of the bars even though it can readily remove its h~ad simply by moving slightly sideways to the right height of the bars or by twisting its head to the required orientation.
The outer frame is interconnected to the inner frame by a plurality of cross members 22 which inter-connect the lower rail 18 of the outer frame to the lower rail 13 of the inner frame. Again the cross members 22 can be positioned at angularly aligned locations relative to the uprights 14 and 19 and therefore in the example shown there are 6 such cross members. In addition there are 6 upper cross members 23 which extend between the upper rail 12 of the inner frame and the bars 22 of the outer frame. The angular position of the upper cross members can again be aligned with the lower cross members and the positioning of the bars 22 arranged accordingly.
It will be noted that the height of the upper rail 12 of the inner frame is significantly lower than the height of the upper rail 16 of the outer frame. The height of the latter is arranged such that it is just above the shoulder line of the animal so that the head and neck can again pass readily beneath the rail 16. The height of the rail 12 of the inner frame is arranged to be approximately midway along the height of the bale.
~a''~L950:1 The length of the cross members 22 is of course constant around the frames thus centralizing the inner frame within the outer fxame. In addition the length is of the order of 1~ inches to 2 feet which is ju t suffic-ient for the animal to reach across the space to the feed material of the bale 15.
The underside or base of the device is open apart from the rails and cross members so that it is relatively light and can be moved either by the animals or by simple lifting by a front end loader.
In operation a bale is positioned inside the inner frame either by lowering the bale from above into the cylindrical area defined by the inner frame or alter-natively by lifting the frame over a positioned bale on the ground. The animals are then released to gain access to the device in which case they will sort themselves around the device at suitable positions between the dif-ferent bars 22 with the number of animals being chosen in dependence upon the number of stations available for eating.
When the animals gain access to the device, they can place their head between the bars 22 as prev-iously explained to reach a position where their should-ers engage the bars and prevent further movement into the ~L2~50:~
outer frame. At that position the head can freely be received within the area between the inner and outer frames and yet the mouth of the animal can reach beyond the inner frame to the bale. The animal thus tends to grasp material from the bale and to commence eating of that material with any waste dropping from the mouth of animal falling into the area between the inner and outer frames that is out of the area which the front feet of the animal can reach. The animals can thus clean up around the bale by eating the material deposited into that area after they have eaten all the choice pieces in the bale and are resigned to eating the remainder in order to obtain enough Eeed. ~hey can access material finally remaining in the central area inside the inner frame by pushing the device across the ground until they can reach the material from their position at the outer frame.
The amount of waste therefore is significantly reduced since the waste is collected within the outer frame, as much as is possible, with the animal being encouraged by the construction of the frame to eat with its head remaining between the inner and outer frame.
Sin~e various modifications can be made in my invention as hereinabove described, and many apparently ~Z~L9~
widely different embodiments of same made within the spirit and scope of the claims wi thout departing from such spirit and scope, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense.
, _ _ BAC KGROUND _OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a livestock feeder for use in dispensing cylindrical bales to a group of animals and particularly cattle.
As cattlemen well know, merely depositing a large bale in a pen containing group of cattle leads to significant amounts of waste which can amount to 50% of the bale. This is because the animals tend to pick the best parts from thP bale and to break up the bale while so doing following which other parts of the bale become trampled and soiled and are no longer eaten.
This problem has to some extent been reduced by the manufacture of feeders which basically comprise a cylindrical frame within which the bale is placed, the frame including a number of bars which prevent the animal from entering the frame while allowing the animal to place its head thxough the bars to grasp the feed mater-ial for eating. However, there remain significant losses with a device of this type. The present inventor has observed carefully the use of such apparatus and has found that the reason for such losses is that the animal tends to place its head into the frame arrangement to ~z~
gxasp the best portion of the material and then tends to remove its head from the frame to eat the material and in some cases drops poorer material onto the ground around its feet which again becomes trampled.
It is one object of the present invention, therefore, to provide an improved livestock feeder of this general type which yet further reduces waste.
According to a first aspect of the invention, therefore, there is provided a feeder for receiving a large cylindrical bale for distributing the bale to a group of animals comprising a circular inner rail member arranged and dimensioned to surround the bale and to act as a confining member therefor, an outer frame arrange ment surrounding the rail member including a plurality of spaced bars arranged and dimensioned such that the bars prevent the body of the animal from passing through the frame to the inner rail while allowing the head and neck to pass therethrough, and means interconnecting the frame and the inner rail member arranged to support the rail member in spaced position from the ground and to maintain the spacing between the frame and the rail member such that the head of the animal can be received therebetween and such that the animal can reach the bale inside the rail member.
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According to a second aspect of the invention, there is provided a feeder for receiving a large cylin-drical bale for distribution to a group of animals comprising a cylindrical inner frame structure arranged and dimensioned ~o ~urround the bale and to act as a confining member therefor and compris ng an upper circu-lar rail, a lower circular rail for resting on the ground and a plurality of struts interconnecting the upper and lower rails, an outer frame structure surrounding the inner frame structure including an upper rail member, a lower rail member and a plurality of spaced bars arranged and dimensioned such that the bars prevent the body of the animal from passing through the frame to the inner rail while allowing the head and neck to pass there-through, and means interconnecting the outer frame struc-ture and the inner frame structure arranged to form an integral, movable structure having an open base defined by said lower rail and said lower rail member for resting on the ground and arranged to maintain the spacing be-tween the inner frame structure and the outer frame structure such that the head of the animal can be receiv-ed therebetween and such that the animal can reach the bale inside the inner frame structure with i.ts body out-sid~ the outer frame structure~
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The invention therefore has the advantage that the animal is kept out of the area immediately surround-ing the bale by the outer frame structure. In addition and more importantly the animal tends to eat with its head inserted between the bars of the outer frame struc-ture so that when it grasps a portion of the bale, it tends to retain its head within the outer frame structure in the space between the outer frame structure and the inner rail so that any material dropped from the eating process collects between the outer frame structure and the inner rail and remains untrampled and unsoiled.
Preferably the inner frame structure includes the inner rail which engages the ground so that this assists in confining the bale and if the apparatus is moved by pushing by the animals, the ground rail tends to move any material inside the inner frame along with the whole structure. This prevents the material from working its way out under the edges of the outer frame for trampling and waste.
A further preferred feature provides a skirt around the lower edge of the outer frame structure defin-ed between a bottom rail and an intermediate rail and formed of a sheet material so as yet further to confine ~Z~9S~
the feed material between the outer frame structure and the innex frame.
With the foregoing in view, and other advan-tages as will become apparent to those skilled in the art to which this invention relates as this specification proceeds, the invention is herein described by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, which includes a description of the best mode known to the applicant and of the preferred typical embodiment of the principles of the present invention, in which:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
. _ . _ _ _ Figure 1 is an isometric view of a livestock feeding device according to the invention.
Figure 2 is a cross sectional view of the device of Figure 1 including a bale and an animal eating from the bale.
Figure 3 is a top plan view of the device of Figure 1 including the bale and the animal.
In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The device as shown in the drawings includes an inner frame 10 and an outer frame 11. The inner frame 10 comprises an upper rail 12, a lower rail 13 and a plural-1.95031 ity of upright~ 14. The upper and lower rails 12, 13 are circular and of the same diameter so that the uprights 14 lie in the surface of a cylinder defined by the upper and lower rails. The dimension of this cylinder is just greater than that of the intended bale indicated in Figure 2 a~ 1~. In practice the diameter may be of the order o 6 inches to 1 foot greater than that of the bale and thus of the order of 7 feet in one example. The lower rail 13 is arranged directly at the bottom of the frame so that it rests upon the ground. There are 6 uprights 14 spaced equi-angularly around the rails 12 and 13 so as to form the substantially rigid cylindrical arrangement for qurrounding the bale 15 and retaining it in position.
The outer frame 11 comprises an upper rail 16, an intermediate rail 17 and a lowermost rail 18. Each of the rails is circular and of a diameter greater than the inner frame so as to form an outer frame surrounding the inner frame and spaced therefrom. A lowermost rail 18 is arranged in the same plane as the rail 13 so as to rest on the ground in a normal position of the device. The intermediate rail 17 is spaced upwardly therefrom at a distance of the order of 18 inches and is interconnected thereto by a number of uprights 19 which may again be 6 5~
in number and positioned at the same angular location as the uprights 14. Covering both of the rails 17 and 18 and the uprights 19 is a strip 20 of sheet metal thus closing the lowermost area oE the outer frame.
Between the intermediate rail 17 and the upper rail 16 is positioned a plurality of bars 21. The spac-ing between each bar and the next adjacent bar is arrang-ed such that the head and neck of the animal can pass between the bars but the shoulders of the animal and therefore the body are prevented from passing there-through.
It will be appreciated that the device is designed for use with a particular size of animal and particulaxly either a mature cow or a young animal and in such cases the sizing of the bars can be different to accommodate the different size of animal. In addition the bars are inclined relative to a vertical line lying in the cylinder defined by the rails so that the bar on the righthand side of the animal tends to extend across the top of its necX and the bar on the lefthand side tends to extend across beneath its neck thus increasing the tendency of the ~nimal to keep its head and neck between the bars. In other words the animal tends to feel that its head is confined within the area inwardly ~Z15~S~
of the bars even though it can readily remove its h~ad simply by moving slightly sideways to the right height of the bars or by twisting its head to the required orientation.
The outer frame is interconnected to the inner frame by a plurality of cross members 22 which inter-connect the lower rail 18 of the outer frame to the lower rail 13 of the inner frame. Again the cross members 22 can be positioned at angularly aligned locations relative to the uprights 14 and 19 and therefore in the example shown there are 6 such cross members. In addition there are 6 upper cross members 23 which extend between the upper rail 12 of the inner frame and the bars 22 of the outer frame. The angular position of the upper cross members can again be aligned with the lower cross members and the positioning of the bars 22 arranged accordingly.
It will be noted that the height of the upper rail 12 of the inner frame is significantly lower than the height of the upper rail 16 of the outer frame. The height of the latter is arranged such that it is just above the shoulder line of the animal so that the head and neck can again pass readily beneath the rail 16. The height of the rail 12 of the inner frame is arranged to be approximately midway along the height of the bale.
~a''~L950:1 The length of the cross members 22 is of course constant around the frames thus centralizing the inner frame within the outer fxame. In addition the length is of the order of 1~ inches to 2 feet which is ju t suffic-ient for the animal to reach across the space to the feed material of the bale 15.
The underside or base of the device is open apart from the rails and cross members so that it is relatively light and can be moved either by the animals or by simple lifting by a front end loader.
In operation a bale is positioned inside the inner frame either by lowering the bale from above into the cylindrical area defined by the inner frame or alter-natively by lifting the frame over a positioned bale on the ground. The animals are then released to gain access to the device in which case they will sort themselves around the device at suitable positions between the dif-ferent bars 22 with the number of animals being chosen in dependence upon the number of stations available for eating.
When the animals gain access to the device, they can place their head between the bars 22 as prev-iously explained to reach a position where their should-ers engage the bars and prevent further movement into the ~L2~50:~
outer frame. At that position the head can freely be received within the area between the inner and outer frames and yet the mouth of the animal can reach beyond the inner frame to the bale. The animal thus tends to grasp material from the bale and to commence eating of that material with any waste dropping from the mouth of animal falling into the area between the inner and outer frames that is out of the area which the front feet of the animal can reach. The animals can thus clean up around the bale by eating the material deposited into that area after they have eaten all the choice pieces in the bale and are resigned to eating the remainder in order to obtain enough Eeed. ~hey can access material finally remaining in the central area inside the inner frame by pushing the device across the ground until they can reach the material from their position at the outer frame.
The amount of waste therefore is significantly reduced since the waste is collected within the outer frame, as much as is possible, with the animal being encouraged by the construction of the frame to eat with its head remaining between the inner and outer frame.
Sin~e various modifications can be made in my invention as hereinabove described, and many apparently ~Z~L9~
widely different embodiments of same made within the spirit and scope of the claims wi thout departing from such spirit and scope, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense.
Claims (3)
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- (1) A feeder for receiving a large cylindri-cal bale for distributing the bale to a group of animals comprising a circular inner rail member arranged and dimensioned to surround the bale and to act as a confin-ing member therefor, an outer frame arrangement surround-ing the rail member including a plurality of spaced bars arranged and dimensioned such that the bars prevent the body of the animal from passing through the frame to the inner rail while allowing the head and neck to pass therethrough, and means interconnecting the frame and the inner rail member arranged to support the rail member in spaced position from the ground and to maintain the spac-ing between the frame and the rail member such that the head of the animal can be received therebetween and such that the animal can reach the bale inside the rail member.
(2) The invention according to Claim 1 in-cluding a second rail member arranged relative to said outer frame arrangement so as to lie on the ground with a plurality of struts interconnecting the first and second rail members.
(3) The invention according to Claim 1 including a second rail member arranged relative to said outer frame to rest upon the ground surrounding said bale and a plurality of struts interconnecting the first and second rail members and lying in a cylindrical surface so as to act as a confining member for said bale.
(4) The invention according to Claim 1, 2 or 3 including a plurality of substantially radially inward-ly projecting connecting struts between the outer frame and said rail member.
(5) The invention according to Claim 3 including a plurality of substantially radially inwardly projecting connecting struts between said outer frame structure and said rail member and between said outer frame structure and said further rail member.
(6) The invention according to Claim 1, 2 or 3 having a substantially open base inwardly of said outer frame structure.
(7) The invention according to Claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said outer frame structure includes a bottom rail member arranged to engage the ground and a plurality of radially inwardly projecting struts interconnecting said bottom rail member and said further rail member, a base of said apparatus being defined substantially by said bottom rail member, said further rail member and said struts so as to present an open base to the ground.
(8) The invention according to Claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein the outer frame structure includes an upper rail member and a bottom rail member, said bars lying in a surface defined by said upper rail member and said bottom rail member and being inclined to the vertical.
(9) The invention according to Claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said outer frame structure includes an upper rail member, a bottom rail member and an intermediate rail member between said upper and lower rail members, said bars being arranged between said upper rail member and said intermediate rail member and a sheet material extending between said intermediate rail member and said bottom rail member to define a skirt surrounding said outer frame structure.
(10) The invention according to Claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein the outer frame structure includes an upper rail interconnecting said bars and wherein the height of the upper rail from the ground is such that the animal, when standing normally, places its head just beneath the upper rail member.
(11) The invention according to Claim 1, 2 or - 3 wherein the outer frame structure includes an upper rail interconnecting said bars and wherein the height of the upper rail from the ground is such that the animal, when standing normally, places its head just beneath the upper rail member and wherein the height of the rail member from the ground is less than the height of the upper rail member of the outer frame structure.
(12) A feeder for receiving a large cylindri-cal bale for distribution to a group of animals compris-ing a cylindrical inner frame structure arranged and dimensioned to surround the bale and to act as a confin-ing member therefor and comprising an upper circular rail, a lower circular rail for resting on the ground and a plurality of struts interconnecting the upper and lower rails, an outer frame structure surrounding the inner frame structure including an upper rail member, a lower rail member and a plurality of spaced bars arranged and dimensioned such that the bars prevent the body of the animal from passing through the frame to the inner rail while allowing the head and neck to pass therethrough, and means interconnecting the outer frame structure and the inner frame structure arranged to form an integral, movable structure having an open base defined by said lower rail and said lower rail member for resting on the ground and arranged to maintain the spacing between the inner frame structure and the outer frame structure such that the head of the animal can be received therebetween and such that the animal can reach the bale inside the inner frame structure with its body outside the outer frame structure.
(13) The invention according to Claim 12 wherein said interconnecting means includes a plurality of substantially radially inwardly projecting connecting struts between the lower rail of said inner frame and said lower rail member of said outer frame.
(14) The invention according to Claim 12 wherein the bars of the outer frame structure lie in a surface defined by said upper rail member and said lower rail member and are inclined to the vertical.
(15) The invention according to Claim 12, 13 or 14 wherein said outer frame structure includes an intermediate rail member between said upper and lower rail members, said bars being arranged between said upper rail member and said intermediate rail member and a sheet material extending between said intermediate rail member and said bottom rail member to define a skirt surrounding said outer frame structure.
(16) The invention according to Claim 12, 13 or 14 wherein the height of the upper rail of the outer frame structure from the ground is such that the animal, when standing normally, places its head just beneath the upper rail member.
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| US4957067A (en) * | 1989-06-03 | 1990-09-18 | Akins Edward A | Feeder for animals |
| US5526769A (en) * | 1995-03-14 | 1996-06-18 | A. Pellerin Et Fils Ltee | Hay basket |
| AT14271U1 (en) * | 2014-05-22 | 2015-07-15 | Johann Gangl | food stand |
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| US4957067A (en) * | 1989-06-03 | 1990-09-18 | Akins Edward A | Feeder for animals |
| US5526769A (en) * | 1995-03-14 | 1996-06-18 | A. Pellerin Et Fils Ltee | Hay basket |
| AT14271U1 (en) * | 2014-05-22 | 2015-07-15 | Johann Gangl | food stand |
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