RU141848U1 - CAGE FOR INDIVIDUAL CONTENT OF NEWBORN CALVES - Google Patents

Abstract

A cage for the individual keeping of newborn calves, consisting of side walls, a bottom and a front wall with a door, characterized in that it is additionally equipped with a pallet made with a slope, and under the bottom there are sensors transmitting the calf's weight to a digital display panel mounted on the front wall .

Description

The device relates to agriculture, namely to livestock and is intended for the individual keeping of newborn calves.

In the first 7-10 days after birth, the calf is most advisable to keep in an individual cage in which it is placed, pre-dried, weighed, assigned an individual number and recorded in the offspring book. One of the indicators when keeping calves determines their physiological state is their weight, determined by zootechnical registration of newborn calves. Daily weighing in order to determine the dynamics of weighing requires a lot of manual labor.

In this regard, with the existing technology for keeping newborn calves in individual cages, it is necessary to automate the process of determining their live weight gain, which is one of the indicators of its normal development, as well as a factor in reducing manual labor and improving service conditions.

Currently, for weighing newborn calves, a mobile cage is used, mounted on an industrial scale lever type with a mechanical or digital display of the animal’s mass index. The calf is placed in a cage mounted on the scales, and after weighing the cage is released to place another calf in it, while there is no accumulation of information data.

Known design of the cage for calves (see patent for utility model of the Russian Federation No. 71210), containing the front, rear and side walls, made in the form of a lattice, the front door, holders for removable feeders mounted on the front wall and floor. On the front, rear wall and in the middle part, the cage is equipped with strips located above the side walls and connected from above by horizontal beams, onto which a removable roof is installed at an angle of 3-10 ° to the horizontal from the front wall to the rear, in the side window, mounts are mounted on the front wall for installation of a suspended holder for a nipple drinker.

The disadvantage of this design is that the cell does not have the function of weighing a newborn calf, but serves only for its maintenance.

Known design of the cage (see http://skotnyidvor.ru/soderzhanie-telyat.html) containing a front wall with a door, rear and side walls, the bottom is made in the form of a pan with a slope for the convenience of cleaning manure.

The disadvantage of this design is that the calf is on the litter which is contaminated, humidity increases, which requires additional manual labor for maintenance.

The technical task is to increase the mechanization of growing newborn calves when they are kept in individual cages by reducing the cost of manual labor for their maintenance, by automating the weighing process.

This is achieved by the fact that the bottom of the cell is installed on the mechanism of the weight device, and the indicators of the weight of the newborn calf are displayed on a digital display panel.

In FIG. 1 shows a diagram of a cell.

In FIG. Figure 2 shows the mechanism for attaching the side walls of the cell to the front and rear walls.

In FIG. 3 shows the bottom of the cell.

In FIG. 4 shows the installation of the bottom of the cell on weight strain gauges.

In FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a calf weight output to a digital display.

The cage for the individual maintenance of newborn calves consists of a front wall 1 with a door 2 for placement in a calf cage, rear 3 and side 4 walls. The side walls 4 are connected to the rear 3 and front 1 walls by means of a bolt 5 screwed into a nut 6, mounted by welding to the side wall 4. The bottom of the cell 7 is made with cells 8 for draining moisture and process water. The bottom of the cell 7 is installed around the perimeter on weighted electric sensors 9, which are installed on the front 1 and rear 3 walls of the cell. Under the bottom of cell 7, a pallet 10 is installed on a slope to the front wall 1 of the cell to collect moisture and process water. Weighted electric sensors 9 transmit a signal depending on the weight of the calf to the control panel 11 mounted on the front wall of the cage. The control panel consists of a control unit 12 and a digital display 13 indicating the numerical value of the mass of the calf.

The operation of the cell for the maintenance of newborn calves is as follows.

In the cage through the door 2 mounted on the front wall 1, is placed after the birth of a newborn calf. The mass of the calf puts pressure on the bottom of the cage 6, which transfers the gravity from the mass of the calf to the weight electric sensors 9, which record the mass of the calf in the form of a change in electrical resistance (for example, using strain gauges) and transmit a signal to the control unit 12 and, further, on the digital display 13. At the same time, the operator serving the newborn calves records in the logbook the change in the mass of the calf placed in the cage, reading the calf weight at a certain time, depending on the program Amount of control unit. This allows you to automate the process of controlling the calf gain daily.

Claims (1)

A cage for the individual keeping of newborn calves, consisting of side walls, a bottom and a front wall with a door, characterized in that it is additionally equipped with a pallet made with a slope, and under the bottom there are sensors transmitting the calf weight to a digital display panel mounted on the front wall .

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