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7511626 Residential elevator with automatic pet door for detection and logic component for operation  
The present invention combines a residential elevator and automatic pet door with an intelligence component comprised of a Programmable Logic Controller with programmed intelligence that enables...
7509923 Livestock sorting facility  
A system and method for the sorting of livestock including a livestock processing station, a computer network system, and a trolley system. The livestock processing station confines the individual...
7389746 Vehicle-mounted animal catching and transporting apparatus  
A calf catching apparatus that attaches to an ATV or similar vehicle and operates along the side of the vehicle. The calf catching apparatus has a pair of doors or gates that open to the front and...
7367284 Automated poultry processing method and system  
Poultry processing methods and systems that provide for the processing of poultry at a plurality of processing stations, with the poultry being transferred between stations using an automated...
7354401 Ultrasound sex determination for sorting of avian hatchlings  
A method for making a sex determination in avian hatchlings involves the following activities. A process line is equipped to process an endless plurality of hatchlings. The process line has an...
7237510 Mobile cattle hospital  
A moble cattle hospital that is adapted to be located near a pen of cattle for treatment operations. A gooseneck trailer forms a platform upon which various gates, fence panels, a squeeze chute, a...
7216605 Animal management system  
An animal management system provides an alley to control the handling of animals when procedures are to be performed on the animals by veterinarians or cattle producers. The alley is formed by a...
7213539 Apparatus for moving livestock  
An apparatus for urging livestock animals includes at least one alleyway which is defined by a frame having a stationary portion and a reciprocating portion. The reciprocating portion includes a...
7174853 Portable alley way with collapsible crowding tub for cattle  
The present invention includes a portable alley way having openings at one end. A collapsible crowding tub is connected to the alley way and includes an opening communicating with the opening of...
7162979 Device and method for driving animals in an oblong corridor section  
Device for driving animals in an oblong corridor section using a driving gate which can be moved from one end to the other of the corridor section. A first transport arrangement moves the driving...
7055458 System for the presentation of animals to be milked and method  
A milking parlor for presenting an animal to be milked rearwardly loads the animal into a milking stall through an ingress/egress gate and forwardly unloads the animal from the milking stall...
7044086 Animal raising and lowering system  
An elevator-type mechanism which raises and lowers an animal into desired vertical position to facilitate treatment of injuries, treatment of illnesses, grooming, and the like of the animal.
6983720 Paw cleaning louvered ramp for cat litter box  
A louvered ramp, that serves as a cat's paw-cleaning entry and exit ramp, ascending to, and descending from, a cat litter box.
6964245 Portable calf pen and method of use  
A method of isolating a newborn calf from the calf's mother. A rigid pen, including an outer frame defining an open floor attached to a motorized vehicle. The vehicle is operated to raise the pen...
6698812 Method for transporting an animal container and apparatus therefor  
Apparatus and method for transporting an animal container with a towing vehicle is disclosed. The animal container is rotatable about an axis from (1) an upright position disposed on a support...
6609479 Bird vaccinating device and method of operation  
The bird vaccinating device comprises a frame, a drum or carosel rotatable on a vertical axis or this frame, schackle means for attaching birds, and being angularly spaced on said drum, motor means...
6609481 Game animal lift assembly for all terrain vehicles  
A game animal lift assembly for all terrain vehicles (ATVs) that is used to lift the carcass of a dead game animal from the ground up onto the carrying rack of an ATV. The game animal lift assembly...
6477987 Method and apparatus for relocating live poultry  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for transporting a large number of live poultry from one location to another. Using a tray, the birds are loaded and transported to the new location where the...
6450124 Portable corral  
A trailer mountable portable corral system for enclosing animals. The system has, a first portion of the corral system having at least one corral panel and a corral gate, a first lifting mechanism...
6443102 Apparatus and method for loading poultry into containers  
Apparatus and method for loading poultry into containers ( 6 ). Via a supply track ( 7, 7 ′) and buffers ( 19, 20 ), animals are gathered to form groups and brought into containers ( 6 ). A...
6382141 Method and apparatus for use in loading live animals into transport vehicles  
A method for loading live animals on a transport vehicle where the method comprises providing a transport vehicle for transporting the live animals, the vehicle having at least one compartment for...
6347604 Method and a device for moving chickens or other poultry  
A method for moving chickens or other poultry, wherein the chickens are moved upwards from the floor ( 3 ) by means of a conveyor ( 4 ), to a level on which the bottom of a collecting space ( 5 )...
6305327 Newborn avian delivery method and apparatus  
Automation of delivery of newborn avian chicks into grow-out houses is accomplished by use of a delivery vehicle which has a powered telescoping conveyor mounted to this vehicle. The vehicle is...
6279512 Method and apparatus for sorting livestock  
A method and apparatus for sorting livestock such as hogs, sheep, cows, and poultry within an enclosure and guiding the livestock to an exit opening therein is disclosed. The present invention...
6213058 Animal chute  
An animal chute with animal-actuated gates at each end and a data collection area. The animal enters the chute through one of the gates and both gates automatically lock the animal in the data...
6209492 Method and apparatus for a mobile cart for herding livestock  
A livestock herding cart with a chassis having forward and rearward wheel assemblies that allows movement upon a raised track. Connected to the chassis is a seat and moveable gate. The seat is...
6109215 Loading and unloading apparatus and method incorporating sliding floor system  
A method and apparatus for loading a batch of turkeys or other cargo into multilayer containers. A method of unloading the turkeys or cargo from the multilayer containers. Each container or coop...
6085697 Device for conveying animals  
The invention relates to a method and a device for animal-appropriate conveying, in which animals are conveyed in conveying channels, the animals being advantageously conveyed separated from one...
6067940 Portable corral  
A portable corral which is folded into a retracted position behind a towing vehicle for transport from one location to another, and is folded to an expanded, usable configuration for movement along...
6021742 Livestock working alley  
An adjustable width livestock working alley for handling various size animals including a stationary support frame supporting a first arcuate-shaped stationary outer wall and a second...
5979365 Animal sorting module  
An animal sorting module including a general frame (1) assembly defining a passageway (2) through which an animal can travel, the frame having a single entry point opening (3) at or near a first...
5975029 Method and device for collecting poultry and transporting the poultry to a slaughterhouse  
A method and device for collecting poultry and transporting the poultry to a slaughterhouse, in which the birds are at least partially made unconscious prior to their arrival at the slaughterhouse....
5957089 Tail gate  
A tailgate for preventing cattle from backing up while in a guide chute is described. The tail gate comprises a tube, angle brackets and a gate section. The angle brackets are arranged to be fitted...
5950562 Apparatus for and a method of managing animals  
An apparatus for managing animals, having a stall, such as a milking stall with an automatic milking machine. The stall comprises an entrance and an exit and is provided for housing one single...
5915338 Method and apparatus for loading turkeys  
A turkey loading apparatus and method for loading turkeys includes a support structure adapted to the position at a gathering location. A conveyer conveys the turkeys to a dumping end. A loading...
5913286 Method and apparatus for loading poultry through a vision blocking gate  
Method and apparatus for loading a poultry coop. Each compartment in the coop has a rectangular frame opening which is blocked or unblocked by a pivoted door. A flexible vision blocking curtain is...
5852989 Method for conveying standing animals  
In a method for conveying live animals, a conveying channel having a dosing belt is moved in a conveying direction and side walls extending along the dosing belt separated by animal shoulder widths...
5622141 Crowd gate apparatus  
A crowd gate suspended pivotally from an overhead carriage driven along a track above a herding area from an entry to an exit by an endless chain slidably coupled to the carriage. The central...
5476353 Trailer apparatus with rotating platform  
Trailer-mounted apparatus of the type with a platform that can rotate on a central fifth wheel-like support with a vertical axis, particularly for the loading and handling of coop frames for...
5394836 Method and system for treatment of larger animals  
A method and system is provided for treatment of large animals such as down cows, that is, cows which, due to physiological disorders, are unable to raise themselves. A drag mat, made from strong...
5381757 Portable livestock corral  
A portable, collapsible livestock corral utilizes a unique two-axis hinge mechanism at the intersection of each of the corral panels making it particularly suitable for use on uneven and/or rough...
5203544 Cattle guard  
The disclosed cattle guard includes a base and grills which may easily be removed for cleaning without disturbing the adjacent roadway. The cattle guard includes side wings which are attached to...
5129362 Cattle alley  
A cattle alley includes a forward and rearward generally inverted U-shaped frame connected by an elongated bar between the base portion of each U-shaped frame. A pair of side panels are pivotally...
5129857 Method and apparatus for orienting live poultry  
When birds are placed upright on the interior surface of an open-ended, non-vertical rotating drum, the birds turn, regardless of their initial orientation, so as to face "uphill" in the drum. The...
RE33959 Livestock working system  
An animal working device includes a front enclosure with front and back ends, opposite sides, a base and a superstructure. The front enclosure includes opposite side walls each at a respective side...
5090368 Animal carrier  
An animal carrier including a frame having a ground engaging portion, a lever extending forward of the frame, and an animal receiving cradle extending from the rear of the frame. The cradle...
4924813 Portable corral  
This is a portable loader for cattle, sheep and so forth and is to be pulled behind a truck. It include a loading chute having a ramp and sides and two trailing fence sides, each divided into two...
4535723 Animal handling and processing facility  
An assembly of gates and pens, or other enclosures, for assembling, sorting, holding, and guiding animals to and from one or more processing stations. A plurality of perimeter gates define and...
4510886 Device for emptying a container filled with live poultry  
Device for depositing live poultry on to a receiving surface from a container having a plurality of floors, via guide surfaces enclosed in a pivotable chute to adjoin the container and having an...
4499856 Means for loading fowl onto a transporting vehicle  
To load live turkeys onto a vehicle for transporting the birds to processing plants a device is provided including a four-sided, elongated chassis or frame having at one end thereof a pair of...
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