CALF HOUSE OF LIGHTWEIGHT TYPE FOR KEEPING MOTHER-BONDED CALVES IN SMALL GROUPS Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A01K1/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: calf house includes a roof, walls, windows, flooring, supply and exhaust ventilation, sections with cages for keeping calves placed therein. The calf house is divided into four isolated sections paired between each other. The exterior sections walls are capital. The two inner walls are made lightweight. The sections are united with one passage. The calf house is equipped with automatic drinkers with water electrically heated in the cold season. Each section has six drinkers, with the rate of one drinker per two cages. The drinkers are installed along the walls on a border with the height of 30 cm and width of 50 cm. Sewer troughs made of asbestos-cement pipes with the diameter of 150 mm, longitudinally cut into two equal parts, are arranged along the border with the autodrinkers. The troughs are closed with sewer grates. Transverse channels for draining urine in slurry tanks are made of pipes with the diameter of 300 mm. The slurry tanks are made of concrete rings with the diameter of 1000 mm in the amount of three pieces.

EFFECT: increased intensity of growth and development of calves.

9 cl, 8 dwg