Disclosed is a flooring, in particular for an enclosure for raising animals This flooring includes side members which are made of a resilient material and which are intended to be juxtaposed in order to form a support surface. The side members include recesses suitable for engaging with spacers which are added in order to stabilize the juxtaposed side members at a fixed spacing. And the attachment portions of the spacers and the recesses of two juxtaposed side members are designed in order to conserve a space, advantageously a groove opening upwards, between the side faces of the juxtaposed side members.

A machine or apparatus to capture dog urine and solid waste for generally indoor use by a dog owner that automatically or manually advances fresh pads on a predetermined programming of the machine by the control module.

Mat (12) for a floor (11) for livestock facilities, which floor (11) is formed with a defined longitudinal direction, the mat (12) comprising a liquid-impermeable support layer (121) onto which a wear layer (122) is applied and which support layer (121) can be imposed an intermittent bending to essentially be able to connect against a cylindrical object having the diameter of =2Ro, and which mat (12) is provided with first slip-reducing means (502, 602, 702, 802, 902), wherein the bending primarily is located to straight and parallel lines, grooves, or bands extending transversely to the mat in or on the wear layer (122), and that the bending in these lines, grooves, or bands amounts to 1/r, wherein Ror. Also concerns a floor having such a mat and a livestock facility having such a floor.

An excrement-drying device (1) for animal stalls, such as poultry stalls, comprises an excrement conveyor belt (2) for conveying the excrement along a conveying direction (F), wherein the excrement conveyor belt (2) extends over a conveying length (L) and has a top side (10) for receiving the excrement (K), and a drying unit (3) with at least one discharge element (4), which has at least one air nozzle (5) for blowing air onto the excrement (K) lying on the excrement conveyor belt (2) in order to dry the excrement (K). The top side (10) for receiving the excrement (K) of the excrement conveyor belt (2) is divided into several excrement conveyor belt sections (TB1, TB2) arranged one after the other in the conveying direction (F); and the at least one discharge element (4) is arranged in such a way that air is blown onto only one of said excrement conveyor belt sections (TB1, TB2).

A toilet for household pets comprises a housing having a horizontal platform, a film-moving mechanism having two axes installed in said housing on opposite transverse sides of the platform, and a winding drive that moves a clean film onto the platform from a roll installed on the first axis, and moves the film with the excrement along the platform to a roll installed on the second axis, and film-securing devices which are installed in the housing on opposite longitudinal side of the platform and designed to be capable of clamping and unclamping opposite edges of the film, respectively, for securing the film disposed in a stationary position on the platform and for the unhindered passage of the film moved along the platform. The first and second axes of the mechanism for moving the film are arranged and designed to be capable of tensioning the film and pressing same against the platform be means of the winding drive, wherein the film from the roll on the first axis in lifted to the platform and lowered from the platform to the roll on the second axis.

A separating device for forming a standing area for livestock, in particular pigs, and for reducing emissions in pens, in particular in pig pens, comprises a base frame, a drainage element with a plurality of drainage channels which each comprise an outflow end, and shoulders, between which the plurality of drainage channels extends orthogonally to a drainage direction, a liquid-permeable endless belt with an upper run and a lower run, wherein the drainage element is arranged on the base frame such that a drainage direction of the plurality of drainage channels is directed in the direction of the outflow end.

Scraper (10) for an endless and moving animal retention floor provided with slip-reducing means (52) in the form of elevations (52) from the base surface (51) of the animal retention floor (11). The scraper (10) is formed with elastic tongues (21), each one of which is fixed to a base part (22) and which extend out from the base part (22) and are terminated with a free end (23). The scraper (10) is fitted in relation to the moving animal retention floor (11) so that the free ends (23) of the tongues (21) connect both against the base surface (51) of the animal retention floor and against the elevations (52) thereof for a scraping function in the motion of the animal retention floor (11). Floor having such a scraper and an animal retention facility having such a floor.

The present invention relates to an improved process for downstream processing of liquid waste fraction from mammalian, such as animal, waste. More specifically the present invention provides an improved and simplified method for downstream processing of liquid fractions of animal waste in which the nitrogen content is preserved and for inhibiting urease activity in said liquid.

A rotatable drum for an infrared drying system includes a body having a first end defining an entry opening, an opposite second end, and a plurality of planar sides extending therebetween. At least one of the planar sides defines an exit opening adjacent to the first end. An interior cavity is defined by the first and second ends and the planar sides, and the interior cavity is configured to receive solids at the entry opening and discharge solids at the exit opening. The body also includes at least one flight extending from an interior surface of the body into the interior cavity. The at least one flight is configured to channel solids from the entry opening to the back end when the drum is rotating clockwise and to channel solids from the second end to the exit opening when the drum is rotating counter-clockwise.

An infrared heating system is disclosed that includes an enclosed tube extending from a first open end to a second open end, the enclosed tube having a sidewall opening in a sidewall of the tube at a location between the first and second open ends; an infrared heater mounted to the exterior of the enclosed tube such that heating elements of the infrared heater are exposed to the tube sidewall opening; and an auger disposed within the enclosed tube, the auger being driven by a drive system such that material fed into the enclosed tube at the first open end is transported to the second open end of the tube and is exposed to the heating elements of the infrared heater as the material is transported between the first and second open ends.

The invention relates to a shed with a defecation region, a rest region, a feeding region and an activity region. The floor of the defecation region is formed by the upper run of a conveyor belt, through which urine that is produced can pass. A collecting trough for the urine is arranged under the upper run of the conveyor belt, from which collecting trough the urine is guided away and directed into a urine collection container outside the shed. An excrement scraper is disposed proximate the conveyor belt in the region of the rear deflection thereof. The excrement scraper, during the forward movement of the conveyor belt, scrapes the excrement on the conveyor belt off onto a discharge conveyor belt, in such a way that a separation of excrement and urine takes place.