Patent ID: 7958850
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A cage for containing a number of breeding hens and cocks and collecting hatching eggs laid by natural mating, said cage comprising: an oblong and continuous floor having a longitudinal direction and made of a material suitable for allowing air to pass freely through the floor and for allowing hens and cocks being fed in the cage to freely move in all directions along the floor; an outer peripheral section serving as outer peripheral walls surrounding the floor and also made of material suitable for allowing air to pass freely therethrough the outer peripheral walls including two end partitions arranged to close longitudinal opposite ends of the floor to the passage of the hens and cocks; and a plurality of intermediate partitions arranged transversally relative to the longitudinal direction of the floor and having visually blockading surfaces, each of the intermediate partitions having a central pathway defined laterally between sections of the visually blockading surfaces for allowing hens and cocks in the cage to freely move through each central pathway, and each section of the visually blockading surfaces a) having a network window at upper portion thereof, and b) having a width that is greater than half of a distance from a longitudinal center line of the floor to an adjacent outer edge of the floor.