Patent ID: 6067932
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A method for dosing weighed coarse feed with a plurality of dosing components to make a succession of mixed dosed fodders for successively feeding animals at successive feeding stations, said method comprising placing a plurality of precisely measured dosing compounds onto a conveyor for supplying individual animals with a mixed fodder comprising a variable amount of said weighed coarse feed and varied amounts of said dosing components, characterized in that a single weighed coarse feed component is weighed on said conveyor and that the added dosing components are metered by a data processing unit concurrently without weighing onto said conveyor at individual feeding stations, said feeding dosage being controlled by said data processing unit connected to control individual metering feeding mechanisms for said individual feeding stations to mix said dosages of said unweighed dosing components with said weighed feed component, and further in that the indicated weighed amount of said weighed component is reduced during the introduction of said unweighed component by said data processing unit while the unweighed added dosing components continue to be added at said individual stations feeding, and wherein the aforesaid reduction is carried out on the basis of and in response to the supply rates of said calculated dosing component as controlled by said data processing unit.