Center-Pivot Grazing Enclosure for Fresh Pasture Rotation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional livestock and poultry production systems are plagued by dirty living conditions, high costs, and environmental concerns due to their stationary nature, leading to the need for vaccines, antibiotics, and excessive labor, while pasture-raised methods are expensive and limited in scale.
Innovation Solution
A circular grazing system that rotates enclosures containing poultry and livestock around a center pivot structure, providing fresh pasture daily, automating feeding and watering, and regulating temperature and climate, thus eliminating the need for vaccines, antibiotics, and litter disposal, while allowing animals to graze on diverse natural foods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If stationary facilities are used for livestock production, then infrastructure costs are reduced, but animals live in dirty litter and fecal matter requiring vaccines and antibiotics
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by transitioning from stationary facilities to a mobile enclosure system that moves continuously across pasture land. The enclosure is equipped with wheels or tracks allowing it to be relocated regularly, preventing animals from living in accumulated waste and eliminating the need for vaccines and antibiotics while maintaining low infrastructure costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies self-service by using the natural pasture environment to provide clean living conditions for animals. As the enclosure moves to new pasture areas, fresh grass and soil naturally cleanse the animal living space, eliminating the need for人工 cleaning operations or waste management infrastructure.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If pasture raising methods are used, then animal health improves, but land and labor requirements increase preventing commercial scale production
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile enclosure system applies universality by serving multiple functions simultaneously: it provides animal housing, enables controlled grazing movement, facilitates efficient feeding and watering through centralized delivery systems, and simplifies waste management. This multi-functionality allows commercial-scale production while maintaining pasture-raised animal health benefits.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual labor with automated mechanical systems including motorized enclosure movement, automated feeding mechanisms, and centralized water delivery systems. These mechanical substitutions reduce labor requirements while enabling large-scale production of pasture-raised animals.
3Device complexity
If stationary facilities are used, then infrastructure is simplified, but manure lagoons and waste disposal require high materials and labor costs
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the waste management problem from the infrastructure by continuously moving the enclosure to fresh pasture areas. Animal waste is naturally deposited and dispersed across the pasture landscape rather than accumulating in stationary facilities, eliminating the need for manure lagoons and complex waste disposal infrastructure while reducing operational costs.
4Reliability
If vaccines and antibiotics are used in conventional systems, then animal survival is ensured, but negative health effects occur on humans consuming their products
Solution Approach 1:
The system converts the potential harm of concentrated animal waste into a benefit by dispersing it across pasture land through continuous movement. This natural waste distribution creates fertile soil and healthy pasture grass, providing nutritious food for animals without requiring vaccines or antibiotics, thereby eliminating harmful residues in animal products consumed by humans.
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AI summary
A circular grazing system for poultry and/or livestock. The circular grazing system including a center pivot structure installed at a field. The center pivot structure may have a center pivot axis. The field may be a poultry and/or livestock grazing field. The circular grazing system for poultry and/or livestock may include an enclosure for containing poultry and/or livestock. The enclosure may extend generally radially from the center pivot structure to a circumference of the field. The enclosure may be rotably coupled to the center pivot structure such that the enclosure rotates around the center pivot axis.