Abstract: A method of automatically feeding animals, especially pigs, in which a predetermined stream of a pumpable feed pulp is conveyed through a pipeline from a preparation zone to a feeding zone remote therefrom, the cross sectional area of the pipeline being dimensioned corresponding to the conveying output required in view of the consistency of the feed pulp and the feed requirement to be met with the feeding zone occupied by grown up animals, wherein the feeding times and amounts of feed are preferably predetermined automatically and for feeding with the feed requirement strongly reduced, especially when feeding young animals, a feed pulp strand of limited length is conveyed through the pipeline to at least one dispensing station in the feeding zone by means of a nourishing-physiologically unobjectionable filling liquid introduced into the pipeline, and the length of the strand is dimensioned such that the strand is fed within a period of time sufficiently short to keep it fresh.

Abstract: A device for feeding animals has a tubular conduit with feed delivery openings. An inverted U-shaped dispensing channel embraces the conduit with flanges extending below the conduit along either side. A vertically movable feed trough moves between a lower feeding position and an upper loading position in which the bottom of the trough engages the flanges of the dispensing channel. A conveyor supplies feed to the tubular conduit and through the delivery openings to the space defined by the raised feed trough and the abutting flanges. When the space is full, the conveyor is stopped and the trough lowered to the feeding position.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a battery for raising poultry wherein the poultry are raised within a plurality of cage units having an open top closable by a separate cover supported on the battery frame above the cage to be enclosed during transport. The battery also employs feeding means movable between operative and inoperative positions for permitting cage unit displacement within the battery.