JP2942828B1 - Poultry single cage - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a single cage for breeding hens and breeding breeders, which has a wide frontage, facilitates breeding and breeding, and has little stress on poultry. SOLUTION: One cage B having an opening A on the front is provided.
Alternatively, in a single breeding cage for breeding birds, two or more breeding single breeding cages, characterized in that the opening A is provided with a door 1 that is a push-door type and opens to the left, and is used for breeding hens. And a single cage for breeding birds provided with one or more cages, from the top of the cage front to the rear of the cage upper surface, so that the cage is substantially concave when viewed from the cage front side. A single cage for a breeder, characterized in that the cage is cut out and a member is slidably attached to a cutout portion on the upper surface of the cage to form a sliding door for breeding breeders.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a single breeding cage for breeding birds, and more particularly to a single breeding cage for breeding hens and breeding hens, which facilitates the breeding management of the breeders and has little stress on poultry. It is about.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art One of means for securing eggs is an artificial insemination method. The method using artificial insemination is a method in which individuals having excellent traits are selected as seed roosters and breeding hens, sperm is periodically collected from the breeding roosters, and the fertilized hens are artificially inseminated. This method is excellent in that many individuals having excellent traits such as meat quality and the number of eggs laid can be obtained.

[0003] Conventionally, when breeding birds for artificial insemination, cages are not particularly used, and in fact, general cages for egg collection and poultry rearing have been diverted. Here, the egg collecting and poultry cage has an opening in the front, and a vertically sliding door is installed in this opening. The vertical sliding door usually has two middle lines, and the door is opened and closed by grasping these two lines and raising and lowering it.

[0004] However, a single cage for breeder hens is different in that cages with a reduced height have been used in consideration of the characteristics of certain hens whose body height is higher than that of breeder hens.

[0005] In the normal breeding of chickens for laying eggs, once poultry, for example, young hens, are housed in cages, artificial insemination, weight measurement and the like are not performed, and food and water Since the head is taken out from between the cages, it is unlikely that the chickens will be taken out of the cage until all the chickens are out or dead. Therefore, the frequency of opening and closing the cage is extremely low, and the workability relating to poultry in and out is not emphasized. For this reason, the shape and structure of the cage door are not so important in breeding, and there has been almost no attempt to improve the vertical sliding door which is inexpensive to manufacture.

[0006] However, if the egg collecting and poultry cage having the above-mentioned vertical sliding door is used for raising breeders as it is, there are the following problems.

[0007] First, in the case of breeding hens, it is necessary to regularly carry out operations such as artificial insemination operation, weight measurement, vaccination, etc., when raising the breeders. Frequent in and out.

[0008] However, since the conventional vertical sliding door of the egg-raising and poultry cage has many sliding parts, if it is frequently opened and closed, it may cause rust and the door may not move. If such a cage having a sliding door is used for artificial insemination, it will not only hinder the access of the individual, will not only put stress on the breeder hen, but will also cause sufficient damage to the individual, such as a fracture or other injury. Was. In addition, if the opening and closing of the door are not smooth, the efficiency of the artificial insemination operation is very poor.

Furthermore, in the conventional egg collecting and poultry cage having a vertical sliding door on the front of the cage, the front and rear doors are gripped by two middle lines when opening and closing. It cannot be wide. Further, since the two middle lines are gripped each time the door is opened and closed, there is a possibility that both side portions of the door may become large. As described above, in the case of the vertical sliding door, the interval between the line numbers of the door portion cannot be less than a certain value.On the other hand, when the opening of both side portions of the door becomes large, the laying hen escapes. Due to the possibility, there was naturally a restriction on increasing the opening (frontage) of the door portion. In the case of the brown egg-producing chicken, the weight was larger than that of the white leghorn breed, and this particularly hindered the work such as the artificial insemination operation as described above. Further, usually, a feed gutter, a water supply device, and the like are provided on the front surface of the cage, and the opening is restricted, so that there is a further inconvenience.

[0010] On the other hand, in the case of a breeder rooster, the breeder rooster in the cage, which has been noticed to be captured by the breeder at the time of sperm collection, warns and jumps. If the breeder has an opening in the front as in a conventional breeding cage, the breeder needs to buckle when taking the breeder out of the cage. This means that the breeder has to take a lot of effort to capture. It is necessary to regularly collect spermatozoa, but if such a large amount of labor is required for such capture, such operations will not be smooth and will hinder the planned implementation of artificial insemination. Was. In addition, the breeder rooster must take out the entire breeder rooster at the time of semen collection.
It is preferable that the frontage is as wide as possible. However, as described above, the conventional cage for laying and breeding chickens having a vertical sliding door on the front of the cage has a limitation in increasing the opening (frontage) of the door part. Improvement was required. Usually, a feed gutter, a water supply device, and the like are provided on the front surface of the cage, and the opening is restricted. Therefore, there is an inconvenience as in the case of a breeder hen.

[0011]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional disadvantages, has a wide frontage, facilitates the management of breeding birds,
An object of the present invention is to provide a single cage for raising breeder hens and raising breeder hens, which has less stress on poultry.

[0012]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present inventors have intensively studied a cage for breeding birds, which has a wide frontage as much as possible and can smoothly perform operations such as artificial insemination. . As a result, they found that the purpose could be achieved by using separate cages for breeder hens and breeder aviaries, and devising the shape of the entrance and exit so as to match each characteristic. Based on this finding, the present invention has been completed.

That is, according to the present invention, there is provided a single-breeder cage for breeding birds provided with one or more cages having an opening in the front, wherein the opening is of a push-door type and has a left opening. A single cage for breeding birds is provided, which is provided with a door and used for raising breeder hens.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a single breeding cage provided with one or more cages, wherein the cage is provided from the front upper side of the cage to the rear side of the cage upper surface, from the front side of the cage. Cut the cage so that it is substantially concave when viewed, and attach a slidable member to the cutout on the top of the cage to form a sliding door for breeding breeders. A single cage is provided.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below.
The two types of single breeding cages according to the present invention described in claim 1 and claim 3 are single breeding cages for breeding hens and breeding breeders, respectively, and both are breeders such as chickens, ducks and turkeys. In that it is intended for The two types of single cages according to the present invention described in claims 1 and 3 can be effectively used as single cages for breeding hens and breeding roosters, respectively.

First, the present invention will be described in detail. 1 to 3 show a single cage for rearing breeder hens of the present invention according to claim 1, wherein FIG. 1 is a perspective view, FIG. 2 is a front view, and FIG. It is a side view.

The single cage according to the first aspect of the present invention for rearing breeder hens comprises a cage B having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped as a whole, and has a front opening C.
Are provided one or more times. FIGS. 1 and 2 show a structure in which four such cages B are arranged side by side. However, it is sufficient if one or more cages B are provided.
It is not limited to this. For example, another cage B may be provided on the back side of one cage B so as to be symmetrical to the cage B, and two or more pairs of such cages are provided side by side. It may be something.

The single cage for breeding birds according to the present invention according to the first aspect of the present invention is the single breeding cage for breeding birds having one or more cages B having an opening A in the front as described above. It is of a push-door type and is provided with a left-opening door 1 for breeding hens. In FIGS. 1 and 2, only the leftmost cage is provided with an opening and the door 1 is omitted.

Here, the door of the push-door type and the left-opening refers to a door of the push-door type having a fixed axis on the left side when viewed from the front. The door of the push door type is not particularly limited as long as it is a structure that opens when pushed by a breeder. For example, the door 1 can be fixed to the door 1 in a state where the door is closed. It is preferable to provide a portion that can be engaged. FIGS. 1 and 2 show a door 1 provided with a handle 2 at the right end. When the handle 1 provided at the right end is pushed to open the door 1 and the door 1 is closed, the handle 2 is closed. What is necessary is just to engage with the number line which comprises the cage B.

The size (size) of the push door type door 1 is such that the breeder hen can be put in and out smoothly and that the breeder can put his / her hand in the case of artificial insemination. However, in the case of laying hens,
Preferably, the width is 180 to 200 mm and the height is 160 to 200 mm.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, unlike the conventional sliding door of a cage, the sliding door has a small number of sliding portions and the probability of rust generation due to sliding. Is low. In the case of a sliding door, rust is easily generated by sliding regardless of whether it is a vertical sliding type or a horizontal sliding type. In the case of the left-right sliding type, the frontage is difficult to widen. Further, in the case of a hinged door that opens to the front side, it becomes extremely difficult to install a bait gutter or the like, and the possibility that a breeder hen escapes increases.

Further, the push-door 1 must be opened to the left from the viewpoint of the operation of artificial insemination and the like. The work sequence for injecting semen into a breeder hen is usually such that the two legs (thigh) of the individual are grasped with the left hand, and the right side is held down,
Press the abdomen with the left hand to invert the total excretory cavity, insert the syringe held in the right hand in advance into the genital cavity 1-2 cm,
The procedure is such that about 0.05 ml of semen is injected. This series of operations is performed in a state where the legs and lower abdomen held by the left hand are out of the cage while the hen and the body of the hen are kept in the cage. At this time, as in the case of the single breeding cage for breeding birds of the present invention described in claim 1, if the push door type door 1 is opened to the left, the tail of the breeder hen can be any one of the right end line numbers of the cage opening A. , The total excretory space surrounded by the wings can be easily seen, and the operation of artificial insemination becomes easier.

The single cage for breeders of the present invention according to claim 1 basically has the above-described configuration.
Usually, it has an egg tray 3, and further has a bait gutter, a water gutter, etc. (not shown). Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, the egg receiver 3 is provided on the outer surface of the front end of the cage B, and when viewed from the side of the cage B, the cage B is gently moved from the rear side to the front side when viewed from the side of the cage B. It is good to make it a structure in which the egg tray 3 is located at the end with a gentle slope. In this case, a gap is provided in a portion C where the bottom surface of the cage B intersects with the front surface of the door 1 such that the egg can pass through.

That is, as described in claim 2, in the single cage for breeding birds according to claim 1, the egg receiver 3 is provided on the outer surface of the front end of the cage B, and when viewed from the side of the cage B, It is preferable that the bottom surface of B is provided with a gentle slope gently descending from the back side to the front side, and the egg tray 3 is positioned at the end. With such a structure, the eggs laid down by the breeder hens in the cage B gently descend the bottom surface of the cage B from the back side to the front side, and finally, the front end outer surface of the cage B Will be in the egg tray 3 provided in.

The egg tray 3 can be provided on the side surface of the cage B if necessary. However, in consideration of the usual configuration in which the cage B is continuously arranged laterally, the egg tray 3 can be provided on the front surface where the door 1 is provided. desirable. In addition, when performing operations such as artificial insemination and the like, the egg tray 3 can be used as a table on which tools are placed.

Since the single breeder cage of the present invention according to the first aspect is literally a single breeder, the size of each cage B is large enough to allow one breeder hen to move appropriately.
In addition, it is only necessary that the breeder be small enough to capture the individual and smoothly put the animal in and out. Specifically, the individual cages B usually have a width of 220 to 250 mm.
Degree, depth 390-450mm, height 420-4
It may be about 50 mm, but is not limited to this.

The material constituting the cage B may be one having weather resistance, impact resistance and the like, and is not particularly limited, but is preferably made of metal in consideration of washing with water and disinfection. In addition, a partially different material can be used. For example, only the door 1 can be made of a resin material, and the other portions can be made of metal. In addition, cage B
Painting, plating, etc. can be applied to prevent rust.

The single cage for breeding birds according to the present invention according to the first aspect of the present invention is suitable for breeding management including artificial insemination operation.
It is preferable that the height be such that the breeder can easily manage the breeding. For this reason, it is preferable to install the device at a height of about 900 to 1100 mm from the floor using a suitable cage base or the like.

When breeding hens are bred by actually using the cage of the present invention according to the first aspect, a feeding gutter, a water supply device, an egg collecting device, etc., as long as the opening and closing of the push door type door 1 is not hindered. Accessories can be attached.

Next, the third aspect of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 4 to 6 show a single cage for breeding breeders of the present invention according to claim 3,
4 is a perspective view, FIG. 5 is a plan view, and FIG. 6 is a front view.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a single-breeder cage for birds provided with one or more cages B, wherein the cage B has a front surface extending from a front upper portion to a rear side from an upper portion of the front surface of the cage B. The cage is cut out so as to have a substantially concave shape when viewed from the side, and a member is slidably attached to a notch D on the top surface of the cage to form a sliding door 4, which is used for rearing breeder roosters. It is assumed that.

The single cage for breeding breeders of the present invention according to the third aspect comprises a cage B having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped as a whole, and one or more such cages B are provided. It is a thing. FIGS. 4, 5, and 6 show two such cages B arranged side by side, but it is sufficient if one or more cages B are provided, and the invention is not limited to this. Not something. For example, another cage B may be provided on the back side of one cage B so as to be symmetrical to the cage B, and two or more pairs of such cages are provided side by side. It may be something.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a single breeding cage for breeding birds according to the present invention, wherein one or two or more such cages B are provided. From the side to the rear side, the cage is cut out so as to be substantially concave when viewed from the front side (that is, the front side) of the cage B, and a member is slidably attached to a notch D on the top surface of the cage. Door 4 for breeding breeders. In FIG. 4, the sliding door 4 is opened in the right cage B,
The state where the notch D is exposed is shown.

In addition to those shown in FIGS. 4, 5 and 7, if necessary, the entire area from the front upper side of the cage B to the rear side of the upper side of the cage B may be replaced with the front side of the cage B (that is, the front side). ) May be cut out so as to be substantially concave when viewed from above.

Of such cutouts, a sliding member such as a bar-like member or a plate-like member is slidably attached to a cutout portion D on the upper surface of the cage so as to cover the cutout portion D. The sire is taken in and out by opening and closing the sliding door 4. That is, usually, when the slide type door 4 is closed, and when it is necessary to put the seed rooster in and out, the slide type door is slid (opened) to expose the cutout portion D, and the cage is opened. The seed rooster should be taken out so that an opening from which the seed rooster can be taken out appears from the front surface to the upper surface.

The shape and size of the opening that appears when the door 4 is opened are not particularly limited as long as the breeder has a shape and size that does not hinder the breeder's insertion of the arm and removal of the seed rooster. There is no.

The opening and closing method of the door 4 provided on the upper part includes:
There are various types such as a sliding type, a sliding door type, and a door type, but a sliding type door is used in consideration of cost, safety, ease of putting in and out, and the like.

The single cage for breeders of the present invention according to claim 3 is for single breeding and does not hinder movement of one breeder rooster.
In addition, it is sufficient that the breeder has such a size that the breeder does not hinder the capturing of the rooster in the breeder. Usually, the width is 370-4
00mm, depth 400-550mm, height 600-7
The range may be 00 mm.

The position of the cage B is not particularly limited, either. However, when the breeder opens the door 4 attached to the upper surface of the cage B, it appears from the front upper side to the rear side from the upper front side of the cage B. It is preferable that the height is set to such an extent that the seed rooster can be easily taken out from the opening portion up to. Therefore, although it is normally placed on a cage base, the workability is improved when the height of the cage base is set lower than that of the conventional case and the height is about 300 to 500 mm from the floor.

When breeding breeders are bred by actually using the single breeder cage for breeding of the present invention according to the third aspect, attached equipment such as a feeding gutter and a water supply device can be attached in accordance with a conventional method. In the case of the single cage for breeding birds of the present invention described in claim 3, since the door 4 is installed on the upper surface of the cage B, the position at which the various accessory devices are installed is not limited.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the door 4 is located on the upper surface of the cage B, a water gutter or the like located in front of the cage B does not become an obstacle to the door 4. Therefore, the opening portion of the door can be widely used, and it is possible to put in and out of the cage without giving stress to the breeder rooster. Furthermore, in a normal cage, a breeder hen often attacks a breeder to be captured with a toenail or a beak, but in the single breeding cage for a breeder of the present invention according to claim 3, a cage is used. Can be caught from the top of the breeder, so there is no risk of being attacked by the feet.Also, beakers can be injured. Almost no. Therefore, the use of the single cage for breeding birds of the present invention according to claim 3 significantly reduces the labor for catching which is a problem when using the conventional single cage having an opening in the front of the cage. And the capture operation can be performed more quickly.

[0042]

EXAMPLES Example 1 [Cage for breeder hens] Using breeder hen cages shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, breeder hens (123 white rocks, 128 Nagoya and Mikawa species, 20 to 20 breeders)
(Up to 40 weeks of age). Specifically, this kind of hen cage has four single cages B constituting one structural unit having a width of 241 mm, a depth of 390 mm, and a height of 432 mm, which are successively arranged in the left-right direction, and has a width of 191 mm and a height of 191 mm. 200
mm, which has a left-opening door 1 of a door type,
The cage was installed such that the lower part of the cage was at a height of 1000 mm from the floor.

As a result, when the hen cage shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 is used as compared with the cage having the conventional vertical sliding door, the hen can be taken in and out, artificial insemination, weight measurement, It was found that the time required for each operation of the vaccination was shortened and the operation efficiency was improved. In addition, since the frontage of the cage is wider than that of a conventional cage having a vertical sliding door, accidents when the breeder hen is taken in and out are eliminated.

Example 2 [Cage for breeding rooster] Using the breeding rooster cage shown in FIGS. 4 to 7, breeding roosters (16 Rhode Island Red breeds) were bred from 30 to 40 weeks of age. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, this breeder rooster cage has two single cages that constitute one structural unit having a width of 375 mm, a depth of 444 mm, and a height of 850 mm, which are continuously provided in the left-right direction. From the top front of cage B,
The size of the notch from the top front to the back is
The width (that is, the frontage of the door) is 219 mm, the height is 60 mm,
The depth (that is, the length of the frontage of the door) was 300 mm. The unit of the numerical value shown in FIG. 7 is mm. In addition, a large feeder and a nipple drinker were installed on the front of the rooster cage.

From four weeks after the breeding was started, semen was collected five times in total for each individual every two days, and the average amount of semen per bird was calculated.

As a result, the average amount of semen per bird was 0.5.
It was 2-0.7 ml. Since this amount is not different from the average semen volume per bird when placed in a conventional cage, when using the breeder cock cage shown in FIGS. Was not given. In addition, the insemination work itself could be performed smoothly because the stress at the time of artificial insemination was reduced.

[0047]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the single cage for breeder hens of the present invention has a push-door type door, so that the size of the door can be increased as compared with a conventional vertical slide type door. The frontage can be widened. For this reason, combined with the fact that it is opened to the left, work efficiency is good, and there is no hindrance to putting in and out of the breeder hen, so artificial insemination operation, movement of breeder hen, weight measurement, vaccination etc. are performed smoothly. be able to.

In addition, most breeder hens fall to the back of the cage when a person stands in front of the cage, and there is no problem in opening and closing the door.
Since the door can be opened and closed with a light force, coupled with the wide frontage, it is easy to take out the breeder hen and stress on the breeder hen is reduced.

Furthermore, since the single breeder hen cage of the present invention according to the present invention is a door of a push door type, even if the door is frequently opened and closed or becomes old, it can slide. Compared with a conventional vertical sliding door having many parts, rust is less generated, and the door is less likely to be deformed and cannot be opened.

Next, in the single breeding cage for breeders of the present invention according to the third aspect, since a member is slidably attached to the upper part of the cage to form a sliding door 4, the breeder rooster can be easily transferred from the upper part of the cage. They can be caught and moved in and out of their cages without being attacked by breeding roosters. In addition, since the upper part of the front of the cage is cut out in a concave shape, the door can be opened and closed very smoothly.

In addition, since not only the upper surface of the cage but also the upper portion of the front surface of the cage is cut out in a concave shape, the frontage is wide, and therefore, it is possible to take out and put in the cage without giving stress to the rooster. . In the case where a sliding door is provided on the front of the cage as in the past, when catching the breeder rooster, it is a method that catches the body and legs of the breeder from the side and puts it out of the cage, so the breeder is cautious When a human puts his hand in the cage, he often jumps up and makes noises, sperm collection does not go smoothly, and this has an effect on the implementation of planned artificial insemination. According to the single breeding cage, a sliding door is provided at the top of the cage, so it is possible to easily catch the sire by pulling it up from the top of the cage, take out the sire without disturbing, and smoothly Can perform a sperm collection operation and the like.
In other words, there is no extra stress on the breeder rooster before sperm collection.

Further, since the door is provided on the upper part of the cage, the position where various accessory devices such as a feed gutter are installed is not restricted, which is also excellent. Therefore, if the seed rooster is bred using the single cage for seed rooster of the present invention as set forth in claim 3, it is possible to implement intentional artificial insemination.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a single cage for breeder hens according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the single cage for breeder hens according to the first aspect of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the single cage for breeder hens according to the first aspect of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a single cage for breeder roosters according to the third aspect of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a top view of the single cage for breeder roosters according to the third aspect of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a front view of the single breeder hen cage according to the third aspect of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a single cage that constitutes one constitutional unit of a breeder rooster cage used in Example 2.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS 1 Push door type door 2 Handle part 3 Egg tray 4 Sliding type door A Opening B Cage C Intersection between the bottom of the cage and the front with the door D Notch on the top of the cage

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the cage has an opening in the front.
In the single cage for breeders provided above, in the opening,
A single breeding cage for breeding birds, which is a push-door type and has a left-opening door for breeding hens. 2. The single cage for breeding birds according to claim 1, wherein an egg tray is provided on an outer surface of a front end of the cage, and when viewed from a side of the cage, the bottom of the cage is gently sloping from a rear side to a front side. A single cage for breeding birds with a gentle slope down to the top and an egg tray positioned at the end. 3. A single breeding cage provided with one or more cages, wherein the cage has a substantially concave shape when viewed from the front side of the cage, from the front upper side of the cage to the front side of the cage upper side to the rear side. A single cage for a breeder, wherein the cage is cut out, and a member is slidably attached to a cutout portion on the upper surface of the cage to form a sliding door for breeding breeders.