The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for continuously supplying livestock to a processing plant. The disclosed technology can include an enclosure configured to house livestock. The enclosure can include an enclosure entrance, an enclosure exit, and moveable walls to partition the enclosure into separate pens and automatically direct the livestock from the enclosure entrance toward the enclosure exit. A passageway can be connected to the enclosure exit and include moveable walls to automatically direct the livestock from the enclosure exit toward a processing plant. The moveable walls can be configured to move at a predetermined speed such that the plurality of livestock enter the enclosure as offspring, are reared in the enclosure, and are directed through the enclosure exit into the passageway approximately when the plurality of livestock have reached slaughter weight.

An improved biosecurity livestock confinement crate system for safely confining and farrowing livestock. The confinement crate system improves the safety of the livestock and the user. The confinement crate system includes a containment area which houses an animal and is adjoined, and separated, by a rib structure in the configuration of a Flying-W. This configuration protects offspring of the animal in the adjoining safety area from being injured or killed.

An improved biosecurity livestock floor system for safely supporting and farrowing livestock. The floor system improves the safety of the livestock and the user. The floor system includes a containment area with containment panels, and a safety area with safety area floor panels, which house an animal and is adjoined, and separated, by the Flying-W configuration of the rib structure. This configuration protects offspring of the animal in the adjoining safety area from being injured or killed.

A feeder system for feeding and nurturing livestock is presented. The feeder system improves the safety of the livestock by providing a bio-secure device for feeding livestock. The feeder system provides a means for feeding an animal confined in an area, cleaning the area, and replenishing feed without requiring removal of the animal from the confined area. The feeder system is especially adapted for an improved biosecurity livestock confinement crate and floor system.

A liner or pad is configured to be positioned on a bottom surface of a metabolic cage or to form a bottom of a metabolic cage so as to provide a surface that comfortably supports a confined animal in the cage. The pad provides a surface that prevents the mouse from directly contacting the wire mesh bottom of the cage.

Floor for animals such as cattle, comprising a base structure and a top layer, wherein the top layer is permeable to fluid portions of animal faeces and/or animal urine, but impermeable to solid parts of the animal faeces, wherein the base structure comprises voids for receiving said fluid portions and/or urine passing through the top layer, wherein the base structure comprises an array base elements forming a substantially continuous deck supporting the top layer, wherein the deck is arranged for passing said fluids into internal volumes of the base elements forming said voids, the internal volumes of at least a number of said base elements being in fluid communication with each other, preferably such that fluids received in said internal volumes can be removed from the base elements by flow through said internal volumes.

Support structure for a surface area, comprising an array of base elements, interconnected for forming the base structure defining a deck, the base elements comprising at least one void for receiving a fluid and wherein the deck is provided with openings for passing fluids into and/or from said void and/or openings for interconnecting the base elements, wherein in at least one of said openings a plug has been provided, said plug provided with a connector for connecting an artefact to said plug.

An animal housing unit has an enclosed monolithic hutch with an open front and a separate open top pen attached to the front of the hutch whereby an animal will be contained in the unit by the combination of the hutch and pen. The pen has a sliding roof that can be extended over the pen, with an extension that shields a feed bucket location from rain. The units can be supported on a composite steel and plastic base and drain through floor tiles can be used on the base, which can be supported on adjustable supports to support the base above or close to the ground. The roof is bi-laterally curved or partially spherical to promote shedding of rainwater, and gutters are molded into the hutch to channel rain away from the interior living space. Roof guiding and securement mechanisms are molded into the hutch and sliding roof. The sliding roof is double walled for insulation and strength and extruded members sandwich the lower edges of the hutch. The front of the pen bulges forwardly beyond the front bottom edge of the pen, the front has a door, a bottle holder in the front of the pen is wider at the distal end, and the front of the pen tapers in width forwardly and upwardly. The units can be provided with an elevated base, base skirts, a non-slip soft grate floor, a bucket and clip, a rain visor on the pen, back wall and rear corner ventilation, a manure catch pan, treatment flags, tie down hinges, a multiple roof movement system and a bedding tray.

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 stall floor assembly for an animal bedding installation is provided. The assembly includes a front end and a rear end and a plurality of floor sections. The plurality of floor sections is assembled together to form an inclined support surface. The inclined support surface forms a substantially continuous slope from the front end to the rear end of the assembly.