Abstract: The equipment includes a set of feed distribution stations each furnished with a mixer supplied with milk powder, water, milk from a tank and various additives from a set of measuring pumps whose number of rotations is controlled by computer system depending on the feed mix to be composed. The measuring pumps are primed by the additive supply tanks. There are as many tanks as additives to dispense. The set of measuring pumps at each feeding station withdraws the selectively programmed quantity from each tank depending on the mix to be constituted. Each animal that is present at a station and that is identified, is credited with a volume of feed that is around 500 grams, whose composition depends on the animal's previous intake, on the weight newly recorded, and on other criteria. The station mixes the feed on demand while the animal is ingesting it. There always remains a certain volume of feed in the mixer after the departure of the animal.

Abstract: An individual animal identification system in a station includes a structure forming a passage way in which the animal, whose neck is furnished with an identification collar, engages its head, spreading metallic bars affixed on articulated flaps on the structure of the station. The collar worn by each animal is in the form of a V with a large base radius. The collar includes two identical parts, each formed from a metallic tube, protected against corrosion or made of stainless steel, whose top extremity has a passage hole for a cord permitting the easy attachment of the collar to the animal's neck. The bottom extremity of the two identical parts of the collar is either pressed or held on a tube made on a semi-rigid plastic material. An electronic identification circuit for storage of a specific identification number is disposed in the plastic tube. In operation, the collar closes a presence detection electrical circuit when it comes in contact with the metallic bars affixed to the flaps.