Method and device for livestock record keeping
AssigneeManagement Utilities, Inc.
InventorSteven L. Kerns
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Abstract
A method and means for livestock record keeping. The means comprises a frame, with a rotatable wheel mounted on the frame, the wheel having a plurality of card holding slots radially positioned therearound, with the frame having a marking path positioned around the periphery of the rotable wheel. The method comprises determining a specific date on which a work function is to be performed, marking the day to provide a marked path, and moving at daily increments a symbol representing a given animal along said marked path so that when said symbol and a mark on the marked path coincide, a livestock keeper will know when a certain work function is to be performed.
Claims5
A livestock record keeping device comprising a frame, means for rotatably mounting a wheel on said frame, a wheel rotatably mounted on said means, said wheel having a plurality of animal symbol holding means positioned therearound, said frame having a plurality of peg receiving apertures representing each day of the year around the periphery of said wheel, and a plurality of radially extending adjustably spaced apart marking rods mounted on said wheel.
A method of keeping records of work functions to be performed on livestock or the like, said method comprising, determining from a specific date the precise number of days until a given work function needs to be performed, placing a marking peg for each work function to be performed in the peg receiving aperture corresponding to the day the particular work function is to be performed, to provide a marked path, and moving at daily increments a symbol representing a given livestock animal or group of livestock animals along said marked path, whereby when said symbol and said marking peg on said marked path coincide, a livestock keeper will know said work function is to be performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.