JPH05328871A - Apparatus for adjusting feeding port of chicken-growing cage - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily adjust the size of a feeding port for chickens having different body sizes by placing a wire grill having pear-shaped spaces in front of the feeding port and vertically moving a feeding trough protection plate in front of the grill. CONSTITUTION:A grill formed of wires and having pear-shaped spaces is placed in front of a feeding port. A feeding trough protection plate 10 is made to be vertically slidable in front of the grill in two or three stages. A chicken takes feed by protruding its neck through the pear-shaped space. The size of the feeding port 4 can be adjusted to a size suitable for the chicken simply by adjusting the position of the feeding trough protection plate.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a feeding mouth adjusting device for a cage for raising chicks of different sizes depending on age after birth.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, chicken chicks are bred in a place different from the spawning cage from the first day of life to about 20 weeks after the start of spawning. However, since the growth of the chicks is rapid and the size of the chicks changes drastically, a device for adjusting the feeding mouth was required, but usually an adjustable grill to attach it in addition to the bait grate protective plate. Is required, and it is necessary to deal with the operation of both parts, which is a troublesome work.

[0003]

As described above, in raising chickens of varying sizes, the position at which the chicks stick their neck out of the foraging mouth should be changed according to the age of the chicks. However, adjusting the feeding mouth to facilitate feeding and reduce spillage for large numbers of chickens has been extremely laborious and difficult.

[0004]

In order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks, the present invention uses a pair shape (pear shape) for the interval of the grill formed by the foraging front wire of the cage for chick breeding,
A bait grate protection plate can be slid vertically on the front of the grill in two or three steps.

[0005]

According to the present invention, because of the above-mentioned structure, when the chicks are small, the neck is extended from below the narrow portion of the wire of the grill and between the bait trough protection plate and the upper edge of the bait trough at the front. The bait gutter supplied from the bottom to the bait gutter can be plucked, and when the chicks are of a medium size, the neck is extended from above the narrow part of the wire of the grill and the bait grate protective plate and the front of the bait gutter are low. The bait supplied to the bottom of the bait gutter can be fed from between the upper edge of the chicken and when the chicks have grown to the size before spawning, the neck is extended from above the wide part of the pear shape of the wire of the grill. Since the bait gutter protective plate and the bait gutter protective plate that has been slid up to the lower edge of the bait gutter that is lower than the upper edge of the bait gutter can be fed from the top of the bait gutter, the bait supplied to the bottom of the bait gutter can be stolen from the first postnatal day Easily foraging chickens of different sizes up to about 20 weeks of age And it can be made to reduce the spilled bait.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An outline of a conventional cage for raising chicks is shown in FIG. 1, and its bait gutter is shown in FIG. 2 as a schematic explanatory view. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a cage for chick development, which is a cubic cage that accommodates several chickens knitted with a wire mesh 2, several steps up and down, and several tens to several hundreds in the length direction. It is provided continuously. At the outer lower end of each cage 1, a substantially V-shaped bait gutter 3 is continuously provided. At the outer lower end of each cage 1, a part of the wire netting 2 faces the bait gutter 3 and serves as a feeding port 4. This feeding port is for the chicks to extend their heads out of here and eat the food in the feeding trough 3, and is made of metal rods provided at appropriate intervals. In FIG. 1, 5 is a feeding hopper and pipe for feeding, 6 is a water supply facility, and 7 is a machine frame.

Since the width of the above-mentioned foraging mouth 4 is constant, if the neck of a chick of about 20 weeks of start of spawning can freely pass, if it is a small chick near the first day of age, it will jump out from between them. There is a fear that the feeding gutter 3 itself is low in front of the V-shaped feeding gutter according to the short chick, and the food is stored at the bottom of the feeding gutter. There were many defects that were not addressed.

Therefore, conventionally, as shown in FIG. 3, another grill 8 having the same spacing as the foraging port 4 is provided, and it is attached to a metal horizontal bar of the foraging port 4 by a fixing ring 9 to pick up the grill 8. The horizontal width of the vertical metal rod of the feeding mouth was adjusted by moving and pointing the feeding mouth 4, and it corresponded to the changing size of the chicken. The height of the bait gutter on the chicken side corresponded to the changing size of the chicken due to the movement of the position of the bait grate protective plate 10 sliding on the vertical metal rod of the foraging mouth. As shown in Fig. 4, the position of the bait grate protection plate 10 is set 2.5 cm above the bait gutter from the stage 1 bait to 2 weeks of age, and the front grill has a feeding mouth width of 2.5 cm. Slide it to the stage 2 of 2
In the case of 6 to 6 weeks old, the position of the bait grate protective plate 10 should be 5
cm above, slide the front grill so that the width of the foraging mouth meets the growth of the chickens, and in the case of stage 3 to 6 to 20 weeks, put the bait grate protection plate 10 on the top of the bait gutter. The pushed-down front grill may be matched with the foraging port 4.

In the present invention, the shape of the gap of the grill formed by the wire on the front of the feeding of the cage for raising chicks is simply a pear shape, and the conventional bait grate protective plate is used as it is. The pear-shaped bent wires instead of the parallel wires at intervals made it extremely easy to adjust the feeding mouths of chickens of different sizes without requiring the complicated operation as described above.

[0010]

As described above, the feeding opening adjusting device of the cage for raising chicks according to the present invention is provided with an interval of a grill formed by parallel wires at equal intervals on the front of the feeding of the cage for raising chicks of the related art. I just made the shape of pear shape (pear shape), but I do not need another field grill to adjust the interval,
As the chicks feed from the pear-shaped part with their necks depending on their growth, it is only necessary to adjust the position of the bait grate protective plate. This is very effective for poultry farmers who need to adjust a very large number of cages.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic overall view of a conventional chick-raising cage.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a main part of a feeding opening of a conventional chick-raising cage.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view showing a state in which another grill is slidably stacked on the feeding opening of a conventional cage for raising chicks.

[Fig. 4] Fig. 4 shows the relationship between the feeding gutters during feeding of the chicks being raised and the protective plate for the gutters. Figs. I'm sorry.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of the foraging mouth without the need for another grill of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Hatchling cage 2 Wire netting 3 Bait gutter 4 Feeding mouth 5 Feeding feed hopper and pipe 6 Water supply equipment 7 Machine frame 8 Grill 9 Fixing ring 10 Bait grate protection plate

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pair of grilles formed with wires on the front of the feeding of the chick-growing cage has a pear shape, and a bait grate protective plate is slid vertically on the front of the grill in two or three steps. For chick breeding, characterized by facilitating foraging and reducing food spillage for chicken chicks of different sizes from the first day of age to about 20 weeks of age of spawning. Cage feed adjustment device.