Portable farrowing bed

Abstract

A farrowing bed for disposition within a hog house is provided and the bed comprises an elongated frame-like structure including a first pair of opposite side longitudinal members rigidly interconnected at corresponding opposite ends and adapted to rest upon the floor of a hog house. A second pair of opposite side longitudinal members generally paralleling and rigidly supported at their opposite ends from the first pair of longitudinal members at an elevation thereabove and with the second pair of members spaced slightly outwardly of remote sides of vertical planes containing the first pair of members are also included in the framework. Further, a third pair of longitudinal members supported at their opposite ends from the first pair of members in positions spaced outwardly of remote sides of the second pair of members are further included in the framework and may oppose, along their remote sides, the opposite inner surfaces of the side walls of a hog house in which the bed is disposed. By disposition of the farrowing bed within the hog house which is approximately five feet wide and six feet long a sow is maintained in the center of the hog house and the pigs are protected from the sow when they are disposed along the sides of the hog house outwardly of the aforementioned first and second pairs of longitudinal members. The third pair of members assist in maintaining the farrowing bed in centered position within the hog house although opposite ends of the frame-like frame defined by the farrowing bed may be anchored to front and rear wall portions of the hog house if desired. In addition, the aforementioned third pair of longitudinal members prevent a sow from gaining access to the opposite side areas of the interior of an associated hog house disposed outwardly of the second pair of longitudinal members.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.