Patent classifications
A01K3/001
Movable livestock grazing enclosure
A movable livestock grazing enclosure is disclosed for regenerative grazing in agriculture. An example movable livestock grazing enclosure may include a front boom, and a first side boom and a second side boom both attached to the front boom to form a contained grazing paddock. The movable livestock grazing enclosure may also include a trough on at least one of the front boom, the first side boom, and the second side boom. The trough provides at least one of water, food, and food supplements for livestock. The movable livestock grazing enclosure may also include a head unit attached to the front boom. The head unit is configured to move the contained grazing paddock to a predetermined location for grazing the livestock within the contained grazing paddock. In an example, the head unit is at least partly automated.
Horse trailer corral
A portable corral that is hinged to the side of a horse trailer. The horse corral consists of fence panel sections that are stored flush against the side of a horse trailer and, by use of a hinge system, fold outwardly to form a corral. Two fence sections are hingedly coupled to a trailer side. An additional fence section, hingedly coupled to one of the trailer mounted fence sections, form a square or rectangular corral. One of the fence sections may include a gate for ease of entry and exit to the corral. When the corral is not in use, the fence sections are rotated back against the side wall of the trailer for storage. Adjustable feet are used for leveling of the fence sections and are retractable for storage.
Robotic rotational grazing system
A robotically controlled system including a fence enclosure that can move and/or shape-shift itself autonomously and automatically without manual intervention. The system includes coils of electric fence wire that are spring-loaded or otherwise tensioned so that the length of electric fence wire between each post robot is able to contract or expand as the system of robots adapts to optimize the shape of the fence enclosure as the entire enclosure is moved by the robots around a field or other grazing pasture on an area of land.
Movable Livestock Grazing Enclosure
An example movable livestock grazing includes a front boom, a first side boom and a second side boom both attached to the front boom to form a contained grazing paddock. A trough is provided on at least one of the front boom, the first side boom, and the second side boom. A head unit is attached to the front boom and is configured to move the contained grazing paddock to a predetermined location for grazing the livestock within the contained grazing paddock. A front boom is formed by a first front boom structure and a second front boom structure, and is pivotally attached to the head unit at a first pivot connection, and is pivotally attached to the first side boom. The second boom structure is pivotally attached to the head unit at a second pivot connection, and is pivotally attached to the second side boom.
Automated livestock catching apparatus and method
Systems and methods for mobile overhead capture of cattle are disclosed. The system generally includes an apparatus having a mobile cattle pen for securing cattle therein. A lift device having a first arm member, a second arm member and a perpendicular support member for raising and lowering the mobile cattle pen over cattle. A winch assembly detachably connected to the front of a vehicle, such as a utility terrain vehicle (UTV). The winch assembly having a cable, rotating drum and motor. Wherein, upon activation of the motor of the winch assembly, the cable pulls down the first arm member of the lift device to raise the lift device and the mobile cattle pen into the air, and upon releasing the cable the lift device and mobile cattle pen is lowered to make contact with a ground surface and capture the cattle within the mobile cattle pen.
Portable cattle wing
Ranchers and other owners of livestock commonly have a need for a transportable means of setting up a corral for numerous purposes. Sorting must take place in a remote location or a location without a permanent corral, which are prohibitively time consuming and expensive to build. In many cases, a simple, but robust, fencing structure is needed to guide the cattle in the proper direction into a separate sorting corral. A preferred embodiment of the Portable Cattle Wing is comprised of two twenty-four foot panels; two twenty-two foot panels; two twelve foot panels; two four foot gates; two twelve foot gates; a main frame; a plurality of swing-out braces; and a goose-neck hitch.
Flexible Dynamic Transportable Corral
A transportable corral includes a plurality of fence panels that are hinged to each other in an end-to-end manner which can be selectively folded together and latched to reduce a perimeter or fence length. Each panel includes a wheel assembly that presents a slick steel wheel with curved sidewalls that is able to roll for moving a panel in a normal direction or slide like a skid for sideways movement. Each panel also includes a brace assembly that is jointed for folding and collapsing when the panel is subjected to excessive outward forces.
FENCE KIT
The present invention discloses a fence kit, comprising at least two fence panels and a corner base assembly, two adjacent fence panels being rotatably connected to each other, and the corner base assembly being arranged between the two adjacent fence panels, wherein the corner base assembly includes a corner support, an upper surface of the corner support is provided with at least two mounting grooves, the mounting grooves are connected at one end and open at the other end, the mounting grooves match the shape of the bottom of the fence panels, and the two adjacent fence panels are respectively inserted into any two mounting grooves. The object of the present invention is to overcome the deficiencies of the prior art and provide a fence kit with a simple structure and better stability.
Augmented portable corral system
A portable livestock corral is configured to be operably attached to a vehicle for advancement in a forward direction. The portable livestock corral includes a wheeled chassis and opposed sets of corral panels. The wheeled chassis includes an elongated corral frame and a ground-engaging transport wheel operable to support the corral frame above ground. The corral frame includes a spine extending longitudinally along the forward direction and at least partly defining opposed storage areas to receive corresponding corral panels, with the transport wheel being longitudinally spaced from the storage areas. The corral panels are positioned to extend longitudinally along respective sides of the spine in a stored condition.
Portable livestock corral with dual and single alley modes of operation, bud box capability, and transport safety bar
A portable livestock corral features a central alleyway subdivided into two alleys and having two sets of foldable corral panels for forming livestock pens on opposing sides of the alleyway. On either side of the alleyway, a bud box is selectively deployable at a corner of the respective livestock pen that resides across from an openable/closable alleyway side-gate of the other pen, whereby loading of the alleyway from either pen can exploit such a bud box. Inside the alleyway, an internal swing gate is lockable in different positions to enable opening of both alleys, or selectively closure of either one of the two alleys, which can serve as a livestock-free zone safely occupiable of a human operator. In transport mode, a safety bar with deployable stops at its opposing ends mechanically restrains the folded-up corral panels on both sides of the alleyway for optimal road safety.