COW MILKING AND CALF FEEDING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture, in particular, equipment for mechanized cattle growing. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has teat cups connected via milk and vacuum pipes to milk claw, hose, pulsator, main hose, milk bucket communicated via pipeline with cock and feed metering unit, which is adapted for delivering feed to calves through nipple. Metering unit has metering vessel and feeding chamber which are connected via opening closed with valve. During cow milking, milk or colostrum is discharged into milk bucket and further into metering vessel where predetermined milk dose is formed and atmospheric pressure is established for providing feeding of calf with milk through nipple. EFFECT: simplified construction and provision for precise metering of milk delivered to calf. 5 cl, 3 dwg