Patent ID: 7415941
Filing Date: 2008-08-26
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for automatically feeding animals which comprises a circular framework disposed about a vertical axis which has on its upper aspect a storage house that contains a plurality of reservoirs, a plurality of delivering means connected to said framework below said storage house, a plurality of vertical partitions extending radially from said framework, a plurality of side-by-side feeding troughs disposed below said storage house and between individual partitions which they abut, said feeding troughs being arranged in a circle around said axis, said partitions extending sufficiently beyond said feeding troughs to provide individual side-by-side stalls arranged in a circle around said axis for each feeding trough, animal identification means operatively associated with each said feeding trough, a computer memory connected to said animal identification means wherein the nutrition needs for each animal feeding in said feeding trough are stored in said memory, weighing means operatively associated with each said feeding trough for determining the eating speed of an animal at such respective feeding trough, said reservoirs containing different feeds to provide fodder of different nutritional values, said reservoirs and said delivery means being controlled by said weighing means to deliver the amounts and types of fodder from said reservoirs to meet the nutrition needs of the animal at the feeding trough and said reservoirs respectively being substantially identical and being interconnected with said framework so that they are readily attachable and detachable therefrom at the site of the apparatus.