| 摘要 |
<p>In order to be economically profitable, intensive animal farming demands that the productive performance of the animals be as close as possible to the optimum; in particular the weight must depart as little as possible from that indicated by the theoretical curve of ideal growth; hence the necessity of frequent monitoring of the weight in order to determine how far it is from the optimum. The operations involved in this, which require catching, weighing and dividing the animals up into at least two categories, necessitate the work of several people and many hours of work. The invention described below consistently speeds up these operations and also reduces the number of workers in as much as it is able automatically to detect the weight of the individual animal and transfer it, physically and automatically, to the appropriate group (underweight or normal). This then allows the farmer to take the appropriate action to accelerate the growth of the underweight animals. <IMAGE></p> |
