Patent ID: 8919294

Claim:
A system for sorting livestock, comprising a sorting compartment surrounded by delimitations, an access port to the sorting compartment and two or more exit ports from the sorting compartment, and at least one movable sorting wall, wherein the access port and the exit ports each have at least one gate leaf which is movable between a closed position and one or more open positions, the system also comprising a first counting device for ascertaining a passage of an animal through the access port and two or more second counting devices for ascertaining a passage of an animal through the exit ports, and a programmable control unit to which the first and second counting devices are operatively connected, wherein the system is also provided with a first closing device for holding the at least one gate leaf in the access port in a closed position, and a drive unit for moving the at least one sorting wall from a position steering the livestock from the access port to a first one of the exit ports to a position steering the livestock from the access port to a second one of the exit ports, wherein the control unit is configured for activating the drive unit for the at least one sorting wall on the basis of a comparison of data from one of the second counting devices with data from the first counting device.