Method of feeding animals and apparatus suitable for carrying out said method
CA 2073451 A1 · Owner: Nederlandsche (N.V.) Apparatenfabriek Nedap · Inventors: Kuip, Anton; Harmsen, Jan H.
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A method of feeding animals suitable in particular for feeding, livestock in which the animals can freely move about and freely enter a plurality of feeding stalls (2) each animal carrying an, electric responder (50) which generates a unique code for each animal in an electromagnetic interrogation field characterized in , that for the feed supply use is made of a feeding station (3), moving along the feeding stalls (2) the feeding station (3), comprising a transmitter/receiver (37) for generating an electromagnetic interrogation field adjacent to each feeding stall (2) and identifying an animal that is present in the feeding stall (2) that , with each feed supply, the feed is furnished in …
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- Filed November 12, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 12, 2011.
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