RU219293U1 - Brooder for young birds - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to the field of agriculture. The utility model is designed to improve the safety of young birds in the early postembryonic period. A brooder for young birds consists of a stand, bedding, walls, a cover and a lamp with an infrared lamp. At the same time, the stand and the lid are interchangeable and are quick-detachable structures consisting of three elements, including a metal grill and two frames. A plastic pile mat is used as a bedding. The walls are made up of four separate components. The bedding consists of two sheets of plastic pile mat. The area of the plastic pile mat exceeds the internal area of the brooder. The walls are connected using wedge locks, which are part of the walls. The use of a brooder allows you to create optimal conditions for keeping young birds, including: no risk of transmission of infectious diseases from other batches of young birds, reducing the risk of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, creating a comfortable temperature regime, good ventilation, increasing the cleanliness of the litter, simplifying maintenance, disinfection and storage.

Description

The utility model relates to the field of agriculture.

The utility model is designed to improve the safety of young birds in the early postembryonic period.

In the early postembryonic period, the thermoregulatory abilities of birds are not sufficiently developed, and young animals require the maintenance of a certain ambient temperature. In the first hours after hatching, this temperature largely depends on the relative humidity of the air and is 30-36°C. During the natural incubation of eggs, the mother hen warms the chicks with the heat of her own body. With artificial incubation, it is required to provide the young with a source of heat. As the young grow, the temperature is reduced. There are several ways to provide the temperature necessary for the development of young animals. With industrial cage keeping of large batches of young animals, the entire volume of the room in which the cages are installed is heated. In the industrial floor keeping of poultry, local heating zones are created using various infrared heaters. In the conditions of farms and household plots, the methods listed above are of little use due to the high rates of energy consumption. The most common solution for rearing small batches of young birds has been the use of brooders. Devices that allow you to create the required temperature conditions in local volumes.

A well-known brooder, widespread in rural areas, is realized by placing young animals in a box closed on all sides, made from improvised materials, the bottom of which is lined with paper. An incandescent lamp with a power of 40-100 W is used as a heat source, placed in the internal volume of the box. Brooder allows you to grow young animals from a daily age and demonstrates high energy saving rates.

The disadvantages of this brooder are: fire hazard due to the placement of the heating element in an enclosed space and close proximity to combustible materials; poor air quality in the enclosed space of the brooder; accumulation of moisture and waste in the litter, the risk of infectious diseases of the livestock, due to the difficulty of disinfecting the materials used; the risk of diseases of the musculoskeletal system of young animals due to the use of bedding materials with a low coefficient of friction.

Known "Multi-tiered brooder for chicks" (RF Patent RU 98867 U1 Application: 2010123849/21, 2010.06.15), characterized in that it contains a vertically elongated working chamber, divided in height into several tiers located one under the other, within each of which there is a cage for chicks with mesh upper and lower bases and side walls , installed with the possibility of movement from the chamber and into the chamber along the guides mounted on the opposite walls of the chamber, and the litter tray located under the lower base of the cage and connected to the cage both with the possibility of moving together with it, and moving separately from the cage, and also contains a system for maintaining the modes in the working chamber necessary for keeping the chicks, while along the entire height of the working chamber from its opposite sides there are thermal shafts communicated with the ventilation system, characterized in that the ventilation system includes fans, installed in the lower part of the working chamber, and on the floor of the working chamber, heating elements are mounted for heating the air coming from the fans, characterized in that a vertical panel adjacent to the shelves of the tiers passes along the height of the working chamber, in which through windows are made, one window in the zone of the corresponding tier, characterized in that a lamp is installed on the back wall of the working chamber, which provides illumination of all cages with chicks through the windows in the vertical panel, characterized in that bunker-bulk feeders are installed inside each cage and drip drinkers.

The disadvantages of this brooder are: the risk of transmission of infectious diseases between chicks of different tiers when pulling out pallets, the difficulty of disinfecting the brooder, the use of a separate source of heat and lighting.

Known "Bruder for heating farm animals and poultry" (RF Patent RU 2327344 C1), which is a rigid design of the heat-insulating element with heat sources installed under the heat-insulating element. Along the perimeter of the brooder structure, vertical heat-insulating curtains are placed, covered on their side facing the heating zone with a ray-reflecting material in the range of emitters operation, the height of which is sufficient to touch them with the lower edge of the floor of the heating zone and is installed by means of their fastenings on the structure of the heat-insulating element. Curtains from the side of their lower edge have vertical cuts. Along the perimeter of the brooder structure, vertical supports are installed on additional fastening elements. The design of the brooder has the ability to move in height along the vertical supports. In the central parts of the lower edges of the opposite brooder curtains, additional holes were made for the entry or exit of animals and birds and to improve the ventilation of the heating zone through the curtains. In the heating zone of the brooder there are perches of different heights for poultry, and in the curtains along the perimeter of the brooder there are transparent windows made of heat-insulating material for the attendants to observe the vital activity of the livestock and birds in the heating zone of the brooder.

The disadvantages of this brooder are: the need to use an additional fence around the brooder, the difficulty of adjusting the height of the heating element, the lack of a floor, as well as the difficulty of disinfecting the brooder, in the design of which the electric heating element is integrated.

A brooder from R-com (South Korea) was chosen as a prototype. It is a plastic box equipped with an air filter, an ionizer, automatic temperature and humidity control, a pull-out tray, a door and LED lighting. In the internal volume there is a socket for connecting an additional light source.

This brooder has several disadvantages. The plastic box of the brooder includes electronic components, which excludes its disinfection with the use of liquids. Brooder filters reduce air exchange and require regular cleaning. The thermoregulation system creates a uniform temperature throughout the entire internal volume of the brooder, which does not allow young birds to fulfill their physiological needs and choose a zone with a comfortable temperature for themselves. The retractable tray is a container capable of accumulating liquid manure and water. The placement of light sources or point heat sources in the interior space poses a fire hazard.

The technical result is to increase the safety of young birds in the early postembryonic period.

The technical result is achieved by the fact that in a brooder for young birds, consisting of a stand, bedding, walls, a lid and a lamp with an infrared lamp, the stand and the cover are interchangeable and are quick-detachable structures consisting of three elements, including a metal grid and two frames, a plastic pile mat is used as a bedding, the walls consist of four separate components.

The bedding consists of two sheets of plastic pile mat.

The area of the plastic pile mat exceeds the internal area of the brooder.

The walls are connected using wedge locks that are part of the walls.

In FIG. 1 shows a general view of the brooder. A brooder for keeping chicks contains an interchangeable stand 1 and a cover 2, consisting of shells 3 and a grate 4, two plates of a plastic pile mat 5, walls 6 with wedge locks 7, a lamp with an infrared lamp 8.

Bruder is used in the following way. Assemble the walls 6 of the brooder using wedge locks 7 in the box. Interchangeable stand 1 and cover 2 are assembled by connecting the shells 3 and grating 4 so that the grating 4 is sandwiched between the shells 3. The assembled stand 1 is mounted on known spacers so that the gap between the stand 1 and any surface is at least 1 centimeter. Two plates of plastic pile mat 5 are placed on the stand 1 in such a way as to provide a gap between the plates of the plastic pile mat 5 and the inner edge of the shells 3 of the stand 1. The walls 6 are installed on the plates of the plastic pile mat 5 in such a way that all walls 6 are on the surface of the plates of the plastic pile mat 5. The assembled cover 2 is installed on the walls 6. A lamp with an infrared lamp 8 is fixed above the cover 2 After preheating, cover 2 is removed and young birds are placed in the brooder, drinkers and feeders are placed and the brooder is closed with cover 2. According to the behavior of the chicks, the final and current adjustments of the height of the suspension of the lamp with an infrared lamp 8 are carried out. In the process of keeping young animals, liquid manure and water spilled from the drinkers do not accumulate in the internal volume of the brooder due to the presence of a cut between two fragments of a plastic pile mat 5 and a gap along the perimeter of the walls 6 installed on plastic pile mats 5. At the end of the growing period, the wall 6 of the brooder, parts of the stand 1 and cover 2 are disassembled into components. The absence of hidden cavities in them allows for thorough washing and disinfection, excluding the transmission of infectious diseases to young animals in the following batches. When disassembled, the brooder components occupy a small volume and are convenient for storage and transportation.

Claims (4)

1. A brooder for young birds, consisting of a stand, bedding, walls, a cover and a lamp with an infrared lamp, characterized in that the stand and cover are interchangeable and are quick-disassembly structures, consisting of three elements, including a metal grid and two frames, a plastic pile mat is used as a bedding, the walls are composed of four separate components with the possibility of their quick disassembly. 2. Brooder according to claim 1, characterized in that the litter consists of two plates of a plastic pile mat. 3. Brooder according to claim 1, characterized in that the area of the plastic pile mat exceeds the internal area of the brooder. 4. Brooder according to claim 1, characterized in that the walls are connected using wedge locks that are part of the walls.