Circular grazing system and method
AssigneePerdue Farms, Inc.
InventorsRaymond Paul Greive, Jeffrey Lane McDaniel, Mitchell Robert Combs, Cory Michael Combs
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Abstract
A circular grazing system for poultry and/or livestock. The circular grazing system including a center pivot structure installed at a field. The center pivot structure may have a center pivot axis. The field may be a poultry and/or livestock grazing field. The circular grazing system for poultry and/or livestock may include an enclosure for containing poultry and/or livestock. The enclosure may extend generally radially from the center pivot structure to a circumference of the field. The enclosure may be rotably coupled to the center pivot structure such that the enclosure rotates around the center pivot axis.
Claims15
A grazing system comprising:
- a poultry enclosure for containing poultry that extends at least partially across a side of a field, the field comprising a grazing field for one or both of poultry and livestock, the poultry enclosure comprising:
- two side barriers including a first side barrier and a second side barrier extending generally across the side of the field,
- a third barrier coupled to the first side barrier and the second side barrier that connects the two side barriers, and
- a fourth barrier coupled to the first side barrier and the second side barrier, opposite the third barrier, that connects the two side barriers to form the poultry enclosure, wherein the poultry enclosure moves one or both of linearly and laterally over the field;
- a motor configured to initiate movement of the mobile poultry enclosure;
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- one or more sound devices coupled to the poultry enclosure and oriented in a direction of the movement of the poultry enclosure, wherein responsive to the motor initiating the movement of the mobile poultry enclosure, the one or more sound devices produce acoustic energy via sounds configured to stimulate one or both of the poultry and the livestock away from the sound.
A grazing system comprising:
- a poultry enclosure for containing poultry that extends at least partially across a side of a field, the field comprising a grazing field for one or both of poultry and livestock, the poultry enclosure comprising:
- two side barriers including a first side barrier and a second side barrier extending generally across the side of the field,
- a third barrier coupled to the first side barrier and the second side barrier that connects the two side barriers, and
- a fourth barrier coupled to the first side barrier and the second side barrier, opposite the third barrier, that connects the two side barriers to form the poultry enclosure, wherein the poultry enclosure moves one or both of linearly and laterally over the field;
- a motor configured to initiate movement of the mobile poultry enclosure;
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- an on-pasture-brooding enclosure within the poultry enclosure, wherein the on-pasture-brooding enclosure is formed by one or more partitions that segment off a brooding portion of the poultry enclosure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.