IMPROVEMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUID FEED FOR CALVES

Maintenance and care of calves during the milk period, when it is necessary to distribute mainly liquid feed, is very laborious. Most of the time is associated with the delivery of feed on a cart in milk flasks and filling buckets from flasks when hand-watering the calves. proposed Feeder device on a mobile frame (rod), which moves on rollers with the help of an electric drive, proposed for distributing liquid feed to calves in boxes. It consists of a carrier conveyor with fixed buckets, which alternately reciprocates towards the feeders. This technical solution is applicable on farms where separate group cages or boxes are used for keeping calves. The proposed liquid feed distribution technology raises the level of the entire calf feeding process. It was found that as a result of the work of the distributor, the use of manual labor decreased by 90%. The actual labor productivity was at least 400 heads per hour, therefore, one operator, when working with a distributor, is fully capable of drinking 200 calves in 0.5 hours. The use of a mechanized system for distributing liquid feed on farms has a positive effect on reducing the level of morbidity in calves associated with the digestive organs - by 20%. Gross and average daily gains in live weight increase by 5-6%.