Patent ID: 7165508
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A hog farrowing system for use in cold environments, the farrowing system comprising: a farrowing building providing protection from weather elements; a plurality of farrowing boxes each having crossbar crusher rods moveable between a nesting position when the rods are extended outward to permit the prefarrowing female hog to build a nest without obstructions of the rods and a nursing position wherein the rods are moved to parallel relationship such that only one female hog may lay in a farrowing box at a time to nurse her piglets, within the farrowing building said farrowing boxes having an entrance to permit free choice ingress and egress of female hogs and restrain piglets; an alley outside the farrowing boxes for the female hogs to defecate, urinate, and move; feed and water stations outside the farrowing boxes.