METHOD FOR COLD-TYPE KEEPING IN ANIMALS Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: animal science. SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with animals' indoor housing, their feeding, milking, development of microclimate, that is maintenance of temperature mode, lighting and ventilation, storage and removal of manure. Animals should be housed in unheated departments and divided into several technological groups. Temperature mode in all compartments, in birth ones, among them, should be maintained in winter period to be not less than -20 C, and in milking hall both in hot and cold period it is necessary to maintain constant temperature of +18 - +22 C. Animals are fed with single-type fodders all year round. Animals are milked in milking hall supplied with musical accompaniment. The whole group passes milking procedure, this group should be preliminarily collected in the tambour of milking hall, and after milking, depending upon the milk yield obtained, they should be transferred from one group into another. Animals go inside their housing - to milking hall and back - along a gallery, and under this gallery manure is collected and stored. The present innovation provides comfortable conditions in case of cold-type keeping. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 2 cl, 2 dwg