RU168708U1 - Automatic mini farm - Google Patents

Abstract

The inventive automatic mini-farm allows you to keep on a private farm a small amount of poultry and / or small animals to meet the needs of family members in environmentally friendly products (eggs, meat), and also allows you to monitor these animals. Automatic modes of feeding and service allow animals to be left without close contact with people for a sufficiently long time, which reduces the amount of stress, resulting in increased animal productivity. This result was achieved due to the construction of a mini-farm with a frame on which a control device and one or more modular sections are fixed, including a removable cage, a feeding device, which contains a hopper for dry food, a dispenser, a feed tray, removable drinkers, a removable device collection of waste products. All the walls of the cage, as well as the ceiling and the floor, are made of mesh, which ensures ventilation of the cage, and excrement falls on the pallet installed under the cage, and is periodically automatically removed.

Description

The claimed technical solution of the mini-farm relates to agriculture (specifically, to the poultry industry) and can be widely used in small-scale production on personal farmsteads for keeping small animals and birds (rabbits, ferrets, or hens and quails).

Known single and multi-tier cell batteries for growing birds, including and broilers installed permanently in capital buildings, providing for poultry in an artificial climate, while requiring large material and energy costs, the use of collective labor.

The solution is known (54) CELLULAR BATTERY FOR GROWING Quail, patented as (19) RU, (11) 130 201, (13) U1,

(51) IPC A01K 31/06 (2006.01), the essence of which is that a cell battery is used to grow quail. The cells are formed by removable, enclosed in frames, mesh panels that are placed on a multi-tiered frame. The frame is formed by transverse frames, consisting of vertical uprights and transverse beams, interconnected along the front of the frame by longitudinal beams, on which the cell floors rest, the lateral frames of which interact with the lower frames of the side walls. The cell battery is equipped with pipelines for water supply with drinking bowls and belt conveyors for cleaning the litter, whose drives, drums and tensioning devices, as well as scrapers for cleaning the outer side of the conveyor belts are located on the modules located in the end parts of the frame. Feeders and cage doors are located on both sides of the frame. The door of each cage consists of two panels, installed with the possibility of their oncoming sliding and equipped with a lock, and a door grating fixed under them. The rectangular cells of the door grill are arranged in two horizontal rows, the width of each two cells of the upper row corresponding to the width of the three cells of the lower row. A tire is mounted on the outside of the door grilles with the possibility of vertical movement along their surface. In addition, a lath is placed on the outside of the door lattice of each cage, equipped with a series of round holes of the same diameter, interacting with the rectangular cells of the lower row of the door lattice. The diameter of the holes of the strip does not exceed the width of the cells, and the thickness of the wire of the lower door grille does not exceed the thickness of the strip. The bar is equipped with a lock. Longitudinal beams are fixedly mounted on the rear side of the vertical racks along the entire length of each tier and are made in the form of channels with a bent lower shelf, on which the edges of the upper branch of the conveyor belt for cleaning the litter rest. For each cage, a profile threshold is fixed between the vertical posts, the steps of which are horizontal, and the edge of the upper one fits snugly on the inner wall of the feeder, and the lower step is located on the upper shelf of the longitudinal beam under the front frame of the cage floor equipped with stiffeners located on it. Floors are provided with a soluble paper floor. Pipelines for water supply, equipped with nipple drinkers and drop catchers, are suspended along the center line of the tiers and are equipped with lifting devices over the floors of the cells.

The disadvantage of this mini-farm is that this cell battery is not equipped with an automatic feeding system, so the animals in these cells require the constant presence of people who provide them with food, while the cells are not separate portable modules that, together with those in animals can be moved to another place.

The task to which the patented technical solution is directed is to create an autonomous mini-farm on which animals or birds can live for several days without human intervention.

The technical result of the claimed technical solution: reducing labor costs for the maintenance and / or breeding of animals and / or birds, as well as increasing the productivity of birds, by creating stress-free living conditions for these animals / birds (minimal human intervention) by performing a mini-farm with an automated system for feeding, drinking, and cleaning the cell from feces, because the bottom of the cage is trellised (all excrement falls on the pan and is automatically washed off at a predetermined frequency), the feed is poured into the feeders with its frequency), water is constantly present in the drinkers.

In this model, the cell is an independent element that is not tied to feeding, drinking, and excrement systems. This allows you to reduce the cost of production of cells, simplify their sanitation, use different types of cells and brooders for different types of animals and birds.

The frame, installed at an angle of 7–9 °, allows you to produce cells of a simple regular shape without an inclined floor, which is needed to collect eggs in a tray, and also provides additional movement of dry fractions of excrement and their movement into the pallet through the grid of the cell floor. Life products can be removed from the pallet mechanically, through the drain hole in the substituted container. When connecting to the hole of the sewer pipe and supplying water to the flushing system, waste products are automatically removed outside the premises in which the farm is located.

Description of the claimed technical solution

An automatic mini-farm with a frame, including vertical racks connected by a device for collecting and removing vital products, a frame located above it and one supporting wall.

One or several modular sections are installed inside the frame, including a removable cage, a removable feed tray, and removable drinkers. All walls of the cell, as well as the ceiling and floor are made of mesh.

A control device, a hopper for dry food and a dispenser are fixed on the supporting wall.

The hopper is connected to the dispenser and is located above the tray, which is attached to the back wall of the cage from the outside.

The cell wall has holes through which the feeding process takes place.

The cage can be mounted on several horizontal support pins screwed into a frame, which can be installed at an angle of 7–9 °.

Drinking bowls can be nipple, placed in a pipe mounted on racks.

Racks can be made of different heights and can be mounted on the frame.

Cell sizes vary depending on the species of animals or birds used and may additionally contain doors.

The device for the collection and removal of waste products is made in the form of a tray with an outlet, with a flushing device that includes an electromagnetic valve / valves. The flushing device can be made in the form of pipes / tubes with holes or nozzles.

The pallet may be tilted to the surface of the earth.

The control device is connected to the metering motor and solenoid valves in the flush pipe.

The mini-farm, if used for poultry, may include egg collectors.

справа, и Фиг. 2 - вид

слева, где 1 - каркас, 2 - наклонная рама, 3 - бункер, 4 - дозатор, 5 - лоток для корма, 6 - поилка, 7 - стойка, 8 - поддон, 9 - отверстие в поддоне, 10 - днище, 11 - устройство смыва, 12 - устройство управления с таймерами, 13 - клетка, 14 - опорные шпильки клеток.In FIG. 1 shows a mini farm view

to the right, and FIG. 2 - view

left, where 1 is the frame, 2 is the inclined frame, 3 is the hopper, 4 is the dispenser, 5 is the feed tray, 6 is the drinking bowl, 7 is the rack, 8 is the pallet, 9 is the hole in the pallet, 10 is the bottom, 11 is flushing device, 12 - control device with timers, 13 - cell, 14 - supporting studs of cells.

In FIG. 3 shows a feeding device, where 3 is a hopper, 4 is a dispenser, 5 is a feed tray, 6 is a drinking bowl, 15 is a supporting wall.

Mini farm example

On the frame 1 there is an inclined frame 2, a pallet 8, a supporting wall 15. On the right side of the farm on the supporting wall there is a control device 12, made in the form of simple daily time relays, which allow you to set the time and interval of feeding, as well as the frequency and duration of electromagnetic flush valve system.

Cells 13 are made of mesh.

The cage is installed on six horizontal support pins 14, screwed into an inclined frame 2, which is installed at an angle of 7-9 °.

The feed tray 5 is attached to the supporting wall 15.

The hopper 3 and the dispenser 4 are located above the feed tray 5, and the feed is poured into its lower part.

The work of the prototype mini-farm for several months showed the following advantages:

1. The system can work autonomously for 15 days, which allows its use to people who do not have the possibility of a permanent stay on the farm.

2. Reducing the frequency of human appearance on the farm to 1 time in 5-7 days (for egg collection) reduced the stress of birds, which was reflected in an increase in egg production, while the average egg weight increased, because when a person appears, animals and birds experience stress.

Claims (15)

1. Automatic mini-farm, with a frame, including vertical racks connected by a device for collecting and removing waste products, above this device - a frame, and vertically - one load-bearing wall on which are mounted a control device, a hopper for dry food and a dispenser, while inside the frame there are one or several modular sections, including a removable cage, a removable feed tray, removable drinkers, where all the walls of the cage, as well as its ceiling and floor are made of mesh, a removable feed tray is located on the outside to her side of the cage under the dispenser, in the cage above the feed tray there are openings for access from the cage to the feed in the tray, the waste product collection and removal device is made in the form of a tray with an outlet, with a flush device including an electromagnetic valve / s, and the control device is connected to the dispenser and the solenoid valves in the flushing device. 2. Mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the number of modular sections corresponds to the number of cells. 3. A mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the cell contains doors. 4. The mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the cage is mounted on supporting studs, which, in turn, are mounted on the frame. 5. Mini-farm under item 1, characterized in that the frame is installed at an angle of 7-9º. 6. The mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the hopper for dry food is attached to the supporting wall. 7. The mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the dispenser of bulk products is installed in the lower part of the hopper. 8. The mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the drinkers are made nipple. 9. A mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the drinkers are placed in a pipe that is mounted on racks. 10. A mini-farm according to claim 9, characterized in that the racks are mounted on a frame. 11. The mini-farm according to claim 9, characterized in that the height of the rack depends on the size of the animals contained in the cage. 12. A mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that it includes a tray for collecting eggs. 13. The mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the pan is made inclined. 14. The mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the control device includes a timer / timers, according to the signals of which / which the feeders are filled. 15. The mini-farm according to claim 1, characterized in that the control device comprises a timer / timers, according to the signals of which / which the electromagnetic valves are turned on / off in the pipes installed in the flushing device.

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