Patent ID: 6176203
Filing Date: 2001-01-23
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A cow training device for attachment to a fixed cow stall frame of the type preventing the cow from moving beyond a frontmost position, the stall of the type having a coextensive rear gutter, said training device comprising:a bracket member for fixedly attaching said cow training device to the stall frame;an arm member pivotally mounted to said bracket member and having an outer free end portion pivotable about said bracket member, said arm member being continuously biased towards a lower limit position in which said arm member outer free end portion is destined to be located spacedly over and in close proximity to the back of the cow, rearwardly of its shoulders and frontwardly of its thighs;a selectively powered rotatable member carried by said bracket member and a whip fixed to said rotatable member, said whip destined to extend at least to the cow's body frontwardly of said arm member outer free end portion;a power supply circuit including a switch linked to said whip and releasably interconnecting said arm member and said bracket member so as to allow power to be supplied to said selectively powered rotatable whip only responsively to said arm member being pivotally raised away from said lower limit position;wherein upon the cow arching its back when it wants to evacuate and when its hind portion is located frontwardly of the stall rear gutter, its back will upwardly abut against said arm member outer free end portion to upwardly pivot said arm member away from said lower limit position, thereby activating said switch to consequently bring said whip into rotation for repetitively hitting the cow; and wherein the position of said arm member outer free end portion in the cow stall allows the cow to arch its back without abutting against said arm member outer free end portion if the cow's hind portion is located over the stall rear gutter, the cow thus being trained to escape whip pain by moving rearwardly in the stall to position its hind portion over the stall rear gutter before it is allowed to evacuate unhindered.