Automatic Food Feeder in Cow Farm

Automation is the use of mechanical and electronic equipment to reduce the need for human labor. It has been used for carrying out various farm operations like automatic identification, feeding, milking, and birth detection, egg collection, exercising, barn cleaning, animal cooling, environmentally controlled housing in the livestock farms and grazing lands. The most salient characteristic of livestock farm automation system is the opportunity to tailor operations to the needs of each individual animal. This is only possible if there are subsystems capable of recognizing the animals as they interact with the automated systems. Automation saves time, requires less labor, and improves product quality and FCR, increases production, efficiency, accuracy and safety. However, automation demands high installation and repair costs; hence is more suitable for commercial & institutional farms. With the automation of farms livestock management is shifting from being an art to an app. A belt type cattle feeder having a storage hopper at one end, a movable endless belt for moving material from said hopper, and a transversely movable sweep member that passes laterally across the belt when a windrow of cattle feed has reached a preselected position in relation to the hopper, and to thereby push the material from the belt into a feed bunk or a feeding location.