DE1188857B - Chicken nest with a tiltable nest floor - Google Patents

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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

GERMAN

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German KL: 45 h -31/16

1188 857
B 72086 HI / 45 h
May 29, 1963
March 11, 1965

The invention is in the field of hen house equipment and is particularly concerned with a chicken nest with a tiltable nest floor.

So that the chickens do not lay their eggs randomly somewhere, chicken nests are set up in the let the chickens lay their eggs. Use especially on farms with a large number of chickens often several chickens use the same nest to lay eggs. But since it is not possible, immediately After laying each egg to remove it from the nest, chicken nests were made with special ones Egg catchers known. This is to prevent a laid egg can be kicked or pecked by a possibly following chicken. So were already Chicken nests developed in which the bottom of the nest has a hole through which the laid egg can enter The box located under the nest can fall or the bottom of the nest is inclined, causing the egg rolls off the bottom of the nest as soon as the chicken has left the nest. However, these devices have the disadvantage that the chickens neither like to use nests with a hole in the bottom of the nest, nor like lay their eggs on an inclined plane.

There are also known chicken nests that have a tiltable nest floor that is, after a chicken has left the nest, tilt it so that the egg can roll off. However, this design has the disadvantage that the nest must be made relatively long, since in order to achieve a perfect tilting movement, the tilting axis should be approximately in the middle of the nest floor got to. In addition, it sometimes happens that the laid egg gets stuck and at one time Tipping does not become free again.

This is where the invention ties in and proposes a chicken nest with a tiltable nest floor, which is characterized in that the axis of the tiltable nest bottom is close to the exit side of the nest is arranged above the floor, with a tread surface above the front edge of the nest floor for the chicken and under this a braking device located transversely to the floor surface.

In such an embodiment, the nest floor both when entering the nest and tipped twice when leaving the nest, which ensures that the egg rolls smoothly.

The braking device advantageously consists of an elastic one attached to both side ends Strips of leather, rubber or the like. At the end of the egg catchment area, a second chicken nest can be placed across the floor with tiltable nest floor

Applicant:

Heinrich Berger, Irscher Hof near Bitburg

Named as inventor:
Heinrich Berger, Irscher Hof near Bitburg

lying on the surface and attached to the sides, elastic Strips should be attached. This braking device slows down the egg's run twice, so that a subsequent egg does not hit hard against an egg already lying in the egg catchment space.

Further details of the invention can be found in the exemplary drawings of preferred embodiments recognizable.

F i g. Fig. 1 shows a chicken nest according to the invention in plan view;

Fig. 2 shows the same chicken nest in section;

Fi g. 3 shows the chicken nest according to FIG. 2, but with sloping bottom of the nest;

F i g. 4 shows the chicken nest with the feather arrangement.

The nest according to the invention consists of a nest box 1 on which nest boxes of of the same type can be connected in any number. This nest box 1 is in a laying room 2 as well an egg collecting space 3 divided.

In the laying room 2 is the actual nest with a nest floor 4 and one lying on it Edition 5, for which a coconut mat, for example, has proven itself well. Nest floor and coconut mat can be slightly trough-like in order to better resemble a natural one To match the nest.

At the front end of the nest, which faces the egg collecting space 3, is connected to the floor 4 on one Bracket 6 a step 7 attached. In addition, it is used to distinguish it from the egg catchment area a collecting device 8 is provided, which advantageously consists of an elastic band, for example of leather, rubber or the like., Is. This band is on two lateral noses 9 of the holder 6 attached and thus also connected to the floor 4.

509 518/10

According to the invention, the nest bottom 4 is designed to be tiltable . For this purpose, the mountings 6 attached to the side of the floor 4 are pierced and designed to be rotatable about an axis 10 mounted in the wall of the laying space 2. The axis of rotation 10 and thus the pivot point of the nest floor is advantageously located above the nest floor level, specifically in the front third of the laying space. Since the step 7 and the catching device 8 are firmly connected to the nest bottom 4, they each also take part in the tilting movement of the nest bottom. The egg collecting space 3, which is directly connected to the laying space 2 , is formed by an inclined plane 11 as the floor and lateral boundary walls 12. The slope is aligned so that it falls away from the laying area. Shortly in front of the boundary wall 12 facing away from the laying space 2 , a collecting device 13 is again attached, which also consists of an elastic band of leather, rubber or the like.

Is the nest empty, it occupies a position, as in F i g. 2 to detect. The bottom of the nest is almost horizontal. If a chicken now wants to lay an egg, it enters the nest via step 7. This shifts the weight of the bottom of the nest in such a way that the bottom of the nest is lowered on the side of the step 7 so that the bottom of the nest is inclined (Fig. 3 ). This position is only temporary, however, because when the chicken is completely in the laying room and lays its egg there, the floor is already level again.

If the chicken now leaves the laying room again, the bottom of the nest is tilted again, and the egg that has been laid rolls forward on the slope until it is held by the collecting device 8. Since the collecting device 8 is elastic and the path from the nest floor to the collecting device is only short, the egg cannot be damaged here. After leaving the nest , the balance of the nest floor changes so that the bottom side facing away from the step 7 lowers and at the same time both the step 7 and the collecting device 8 are raised until the nest floor has reached its starting position again. As a result , the egg is released and can roll on the inclined plane 11 of the egg catching space 3 up to in front of the second catching device 13, which in turn catches it so gently that damage is excluded.

Since it happens every now and then that there is dirt at the transition from the laying room and egg catching room Ver that are entered by the chickens, it is advantageous to choose the distance between the front edge of the nest bottom 4 and the collecting device 8 so that the Nest bottom gives the egg a small push when tilting, as soon as the collecting device 8 has released the egg.

The catching device 8 not only gently catches the egg coming out of the nest , but this device also has the purpose of providing a privacy screen against the eggs that were already laid in the egg catching area 3 when the chicken is in the laying area 2, so that these eggs laid earlier are not pecked.

For some operational purposes it has proven particularly useful not to arrange the egg catchment area on the side, from which the chickens enter the nest, but rather on the opposite side, for example when using an egg collecting belt. In this case, the inventive Catcher can be used in the same way. Only here it is necessary to unilaterally under the nest bottom and / or from above on the then unused step 7 a spring 14 or a counterweight provide that triggers the tilting movement of the nest floor, as shown in FIG. 4 is indicated.

In this embodiment, the nest bottom 4 is also at rest due to the spring force exerted in an inclined position. If a chicken now enters the nest in the direction of the arrow, the bottom of the nest sinks the weight of the chicken against the spring pressure up to a horizontal position (Fig. 4). If after oviposition the chicken leaves the nest again and thus releases the nest floor, this enters again Inclined position, as the spring can now be effective again. The egg now rolls up in front of the Catcher 8, where it remains until a second chicken enters the nest and thereby puts the bottom of the nest horizontally again. At the same time it is connected to the nest floor Catcher raised so that the egg can roll into the egg catcher.

Claims (3)

Patent claims: 1. Chicken nest with tiltable nest floor, characterized in that the axis of the tiltable nest bottom near the exit side of the nest above the bottom is arranged, with a step surface for the chicken over the front edge of the nest floor and underneath this a braking device for the rolling ones lying transversely to the floor surface Eggs located. 2. Chicken nest according to claim 1, characterized in that the braking device consists of an elastic strip of leather, rubber or the like attached to its two side ends. consists. 3. Chicken nest according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that at the end of the egg catching space a second, transverse to the bottom surface and attached to the sides elastic strip is attached. References considered: U.S. Patent Nos. 2,090,906, 2,584,054. 1 sheet of drawings 509 518/10 3.65 © Bundesdruckerei Berlin