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WO2008116969A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour nourrir et traire des animaux dans un bâtiment de production agricole équipé d'un robot de traite - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour nourrir et traire des animaux dans un bâtiment de production agricole équipé d'un robot de traite Download PDF

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WO2008116969A1
WO2008116969A1 PCT/FI2008/050133 FI2008050133W WO2008116969A1 WO 2008116969 A1 WO2008116969 A1 WO 2008116969A1 FI 2008050133 W FI2008050133 W FI 2008050133W WO 2008116969 A1 WO2008116969 A1 WO 2008116969A1
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Christer FORSSTRÖM
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K1/00—Housing animals; Equipment therefor
    • A01K1/0041—Rotary, round or circular animal barns
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K1/00—Housing animals; Equipment therefor
    • A01K1/12—Milking stations

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  • the present invention relates to a method as defined in the preamble of claim 1, and to an arrangement as defined in the preamble of claim 5, for feeding .and milking of animals in a farm production building equipped with a milking robot.
  • This invention relates particularly to the arrangement of the structures and fixtures of production buildings such as cow houses and loose housings for dairy cattle, and to a method for managing the animals in the production building so that feeding and milking are flexible and easy from the animals' point of view, as well as advantageous for produc- tion.
  • cows lie down in their stalls most of the time. The lying time is approx. 16-18 hours per day. A cow usually goes to eat or drink only when it is hungry or thirsty. This usually happens 6-8 times per day.
  • the structure of production buildings intended for cattle, as well as the arrangement of fixtures and fittings within the buildings must be such that the cattle are easy to feed and care for, and that milking is efficient. Therefore, particularly as larger cow house units become more common and the number of cows per unit increases, the heaviest tasks in the cow house, such as milking and feeding, should be automated where possible.
  • Solutions developed for milking in- elude milking robots with which cows practically milk themselves by visiting the robot each in turn. Milking turns are usually organised according to the cows' own mutual hierarchy. With an arrangement using milking robots, there are special requirements to ensure that cows thrive, stay suffi- ciently clean, dare to move as freely as possible and use the milking robots efficiently.
  • FIG. 1 essentially rectangular, elongated buildings with a number of adjacent rows of sleeping stalls 100-103, separated from each other by passages 200-202 placed lengthwise along the building.
  • the sleeping stalls 100-103 are located for example at one end of the elongated production building, while at the other end of the building there is a milking robot 500, to which dairy cattle are directed to walk independently for milking, along the first passage 200.
  • the first lengthwise row of sleeping stalls 100 of the production building is placed for example along one wall of the building.
  • the first passage 200 placed parallel to the row of sleeping stalls 100, after which, moving towards the centre of the production building there is for example a second row of sleeping stalls 101, whose sleeping stalls open towards the first passage 200.
  • connections from the first passage 200 to the second passage 201 which connections are essentially perpendicular to the long side of the production building, are formed with transverse passages 300 placed at regular intervals and essentially perpendicularly to the passages 200, 201, which pas- sages 300 thus connect the passages 200 and 201 together.
  • a feeding table 400 placed essentially parallel with the passage, where equipment, that can be for example similar to a belt conveyor, brings feed to the animals in the production building.
  • equipment that can be for example similar to a belt conveyor
  • brings feed to the animals in the production building along the opposite wall of the production building there can be at least one other row of sleeping stalls 103, for example for young cattle. These sleeping stalls may not necessarily be connected to the milking robot 500.
  • Cows will usually go for milking at the latest when their udders are filled with milk. Then they will go along one of the lengthwise passages 200-202 to the milking robot 500 placed at the other end of the unit, which means that the milking traffic is mainly lengthwise along the building, thus being perpendicular to the feeding traffic.
  • the milking traffic related paths are shown in Figure 1 with arrows Ib.
  • the mutually crosswise milking traffic Ib and feeding traffic Ia cause traffic jams and may prevent timid animals from reaching the milking robot 500 if their paths are blocked by large and frightening cows.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome the abovementioned drawbacks and to achieve a practical, effi- cient and advantageous method and arrangement for farm production buildings that allows the cattle the ability to move freely and to milk themselves at their own pace using milking robots or a similar equipments.
  • the method according to the invention is characterized by what is disclosed in the characterization part of claim 1.
  • the arrangement according to the invention is characterized by what is disclosed in the characterization part of claim 5.
  • Other embodiments of the invention are characterized by what is disclosed in the other claims.
  • the solution of the invention has the advantage that the production building of the solution is advantageous and easy to build, furnish and equip with its functions such that the animals have possibility to flexible and free movement.
  • An additional advantage is that the production building fulfilling the solution accord- ing to the invention is particularly suitable for use as a loose housing and is easy to equip with milking robots that the cows can easily visit independently, at their own pace.
  • none of the cows has too long a way to the milking robots and even the most timid animals dare to go there at their own pace because the milking and feeding traffics do not obstruct each other and on the way there are no frightening places that cannot easily be gone around .
  • Feeding of the animals is also easy to automate.
  • a common advantage to all of these functions is that the distances to various facilities and equipment are relatively short.
  • An additional advantage is the versatility of the solution.
  • the space can be divided with barriers and various kinds of gates into sectors, which provides for (an) easy and advantageous implementation of diverse functions such as heifer training.
  • the animals can be divided into different groups and the groups can easily be directed to different places, such as for instance out to a pasture, when neces- sary from different sides of the building, which makes it easy to vary the pastures.
  • An additional advantage is the easy expandability. With a suitable choice of fixtures, an expansion can be made mainly within a single production building, or a larger extension can be made by constructing a new, essentially round production building next to the earlier building, which new building • shares facilities of the earlier building.
  • Figure 1 presents a farm production building according to prior art, viewed from above and simplified, and
  • Figure 2 presents a farm production building according to the invention, viewed from above and simplified.
  • Figure 2 presents a farm production building according to the invention, such as a cow house or a loose housing intended for cattle, viewed from above and in simplified and diagrammatic form, with the roof removed.
  • the building's roof structures are supported by supporting pillars 2 placed concentrically and essentially at regular intervals in a circular ring, which makes the building itself essentially circular, excepting the short straight sections of the outer walls between the supporting pillars.
  • the roof beams are essentially placed at equal an- gles between each other, and they radiate from the centre of the building to end on top of the abovementioned supporting pillars 2.
  • the beams can be placed for example at regular angles of 18°, which gives a total of 20 beams and 20 supporting pillars 2 for the building.
  • first i.e. the outermost area of adjacent sleeping stalls 3a placed concentrically in a ring, the area named more briefly as the sleeping stall ring 3a, which has an essentially fixed stall section.
  • the next concentric ring inwards consists of the first i.e. the outermost circular passage 4, which forms a grate-like base.
  • the second area of adjacent sleeping stalls 3b placed concentrically in a ring the area named more briefly as the sleeping stall ring 3b, which also has an essentially fixed stall section.
  • an inner i.e. a second circu- lar passage 5, which forms a grate-like base, inside which, when moving towards the building's centre, there is an essentially circular feeding equipment 8 comprising feeding and drinking equipment .
  • the feeding equipment 8 contains water stations for the animals to drink from, and a feeding trolley which moves on rails and is fitted to move circularly, for instance concentrically with the sleeping stall rings 3a-3c.
  • the feeding equipment 8 is refilled for example by a filling conveyor 12, which portions out the feed at a suitable location into the feeding trolley of the feeding equipment 8.
  • the third area of adjacent sleeping stalls 3c placed concentrically in a ring, the area named more briefly as the sleeping stall ring 3c, which also has an essentially fixed stall section. Further, on the ring inside the sleeping stall ring 3c, there is the innermost, i.e.
  • the third circular passage 6 forming a grate-like base, within which, when moving ahead towards the building's centre, there is, when seen from above, an essentially round space 7, in the centre of the building, concentric with the abovementioned sleeping stall rings, passages and other circular sections, at the bottom of which space there is for ⁇ example a sludge container used as a col- lecting tank, and further up, placed suitably higher than the loose housing's floor structure, there is an office or similar facility. Above the office there is advantageously also other usage and storage space.
  • connecting passages 13, 14 placed essentially radially in relation to the building, which connecting passages 13, 14 are placed suitably to cut the sleeping stall rings 3a-3c.
  • the positioning of the connecting passages 13 is also chosen carefully in terms of the feeding and milking traffic in order to minimise traffic jams, reduce crosswise traffic and make it so that an easy roundabout way is always found to the desired destination if a route is blocked for some reason.
  • the inside of the production building is sectioned by one or more barriers 15 into suitably sized sectors or areas of a different shape 17-19, which contain for example sleeping stalls and other necessary equipment and functions for different groups of animals.
  • the milking cows are placed in a sector 17 defined by the filling conveyor 12 and, moving along clockwise from it, the first partition 15.
  • sector 18 defined by the partitions 15 contains for example dried- up cattle, while the other half of the building, i.e. sector 19 located at the top of Figure 2, contains for example young cattle that are not yet ready for milking. With these different sectors, animals can be directed to exit the building at different locations.
  • One or more milking robots 11 are placed in a location chosen carefully to optimise the fluency of the animals' feeding and milking traffic, essentially within the milking area placed at the centre part of the production building, so that the milking robot 11 is placed essentially inside the area formed by at least the two outer sleeping stall areas placed concentrically along a circular ring, i.e. inside the the first circular sleeping stall area 3a and the second circular sleeping stall area 3b.
  • the milking robot 11 is placed for example, in the direction of the building's radius, between the second and third circular pas.sages 5 and 6, to cut (off) the inner sleeping stall area 3c with its circularly and concentrically placed sleeping stalls.
  • the area of inner sleeping stalls 3c does not form a wholly enclosed circle, but the milking area contains at the same a passage in front of the milking robot 11, through which the animals can return from the milking robot to their sleeping stall- areas.
  • the milking area 11 is placed on the side of the main entrance 16 to the animal shelter, from where there is a direct link to an outbuilding 9 comprising other maintenance and care facilities.
  • the outbuilding 9 contains at least a milk tank 10, to which the milk obtained from the cattle is arranged to be fed from the milking robots 11 along pipes.
  • the outbuild- ing has facilities 20 for example for sick animals, which animals also have access from the space 20 to the milking robot 11.
  • the milking cow sector 17 has three rows of sleeping stall rings 3a-3c placed within each other. Most of the sleeping stalls are sleeping stalls 3a placed on the outermost ring, which means that most cows lie in the outermost sleeping stall area 3a.
  • the sleeping stall area 3a in the milking cow sector 17 is connected with the building' s centre at least by several radial connecting passages 13, 14.
  • connecting passage 14 leading from the circular passage 5 to circular passage 6, which , connecting passage is again placed in a carefully selected location between the ends of the sleeping stall ring 3c located in sector 17, advantageously into an essentially same radial line with the abovementioned connecting passage 14 that leads to circular passage 5.
  • the two connecting passages 14 offer an essentially direct link from the outermost sleeping stall ring 3a to the innermost circular passage 6.
  • cows At the centre of the innermost ring 3c there is a milking robot 11, so whenever cows go to feed or drink they are stimulated to go for milking. Thanks to the short distances, the cows have good visual and aural contact with the milking robot 11, which stimulates their lactation hormones and encourages them to visit the milking robot more often. Thanks to the solution according to the invention, cows have a very short distance, usually always about 10 metres to go to the milking robot from any location within the building.
  • the sector-type structure of the building also fits with the cows' natural need .for space, because the sleeping stall area where the cows need the most space, has the most space per animal due to the sector-type structure, the next- largest amount of space per animal being in the feeding area and with the milking robot 11 being at the centre.
  • the animals have complete freedom of movement within the building, which allows them to wander according to their own will and schedule along the circular grate passages 4, 5 and 6, and along the radial connecting passages 13 and 14, from their sleeping stalls to the milking robots 11 and the feeding equipment 8 and back.
  • the connecting passages 13 are located close to the milking robot 11 at the cut off milking robot 11 sided ends of the two innermost sleeping stall rings 3b, 3c, while the connecting passages 14 are located at suitably and carefully selected locations, in terms of feeding and milking traffic, in order to cut off the sleep- ing stall rings 3b, 3c and to open connections between all of the sleeping stall rings 3a-3c at the mentioned carefully selected locations.
  • All distances are designed to be as short as possible in order for the free movement to work out well, and to prevent even the most timid animals from feel- ing that they are boxed-in or afraid to move freely due to a long distance, in such a way that a roundabout route is always easy to find.
  • the cows are directed essentially using at least a feeding traffic directed towards the centre of the building from at least one, and most suitably from the two outermost sleeping stall areas 3a, 3b to the feeding equipment 8, essentially using at least the circular passages 4, 5 and essentially using the essentially radial connecting passages 13, 14 that point towards the centre of the building and connect the circular passages 4 and 5.
  • the cows are directed, at least at some point of their journey, essentially closer to the milking robot 11 than their own sleeping stalls are located.
  • connecting pas- sages 13 are placed at the milking robot 11 ends of the second and third sleeping stall rings 3b and 3c, connecting all of the sleeping stall rings 3a-3c and all of the circular passages 4-6, which means that when returning from the feeding equipment 8 to their sleeping stalls, the cows are advantageously directed to pass through the connecting passage 13 located close to the milking robot 11 at the end of the second and/or third sleeping stall ring 3b, 3c.
  • the cows are directed as quickly as possible from the sleeping stalls located essentially the furthest from the milking robot 11, using the connecting passages 14 located in the middle of the second and third sleeping stall rings 3b, 3c, to the third circular passage 6 and along it to the milking robot 11.
  • the connecting passages 14 located in the middle of the second and third sleeping stall rings 3b, 3c, to the third circular passage 6 and along it to the milking robot 11.
  • the invention is not limited to the embodiment example given above, but it may be varied within the scope of the patent claims presented hereinafter.
  • the number of circular sleeping stall rows can vary from the abovemen- tioned three, being for example two or four, or even greater .
  • the structural details of the production building can differ from those given above.
  • the essential element consists of the connections between the placement of the miIk- ing robot and the cows' routes, with the milking robot being placed at the centre of the building in a location to which all the cows have a short and easy route, and which causes the cows to pass the milking robot often, for example after feeding or drinking.

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Cette invention porte sur un procédé et un dispositif pour alimenter et traire des animaux dans un bâtiment de production agricole équipé d'un robot de traite (11), lequel bâtiment contient au moins une zone extérieure de stalles de repos (3a) placées dans un anneau circulaire, de façon adjacente et concentrique ; un passage circulaire (4) placé à l'intérieur de la zone de stalles de repos (3a) ; une zone interne de stalles de repos (3b) placée dans un anneau sensiblement circulaire, de façon adjacente et concentrique ; un passage sensiblement circulaire (5) placé à l'intérieur de la zone de stalles de repos (3b) ; un appareil d'alimentation (8) placé au moins à l'intérieur de la zone de stalles de repos interne (3b) ; et un certain nombre de passages de liaison (13, 14) placés radialement en relation avec le bâtiment, qui relient les passages (4) et (5). Les animaux sont dirigés à partir d'au moins une zone de stalles de repos (3a, 3b), et le plus avantageusement des deux aires de stalles de repos les plus à l'extérieur (3a, 3b), jusqu'à l'équipement d'alimentation (8), à l'aide d'au moins un trafic d'alimentation ou du trafic d'alimentation dirigé vers le centre du bâtiment, et à l'aide d'au moins les passages circulaires (4, 5) et en utilisant essentiellement les passages de liaison radiaux (13, 14) qui sont orientés vers le centre du bâtiment.
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