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Apparatus for handling small livestock such as chickens comprising open topped slideable drawers (12) in a rectangular housing (10) from which they are slid to allow for loading and subsequently for unloading onto a transfer conveyor (20). A roof (34) over the conveyor covers the open tops of the dr

Apparatus for handling small livestock such as chickens comprising open topped slideable drawers (12) in a rectangular housing (10) from which they are slid to allow for loading and subsequently for unloading onto a transfer conveyor (20). A roof (34) over the conveyor covers the open tops of the drawers as they move therealong to prevent the livestock from escape. An elevating platform (28) adjacent the conveyor (20) allows the housing (10) to be raised and lowered to allow the drawers to be pushed or pulled from the housing directly onto the conveyor. A method of collecting and handling livestock involves the step of filling the drawers in the housing with livestock, transporting the housing to a drawer unloading station where the drawers are removed from the housing onto a conveyor, for movement therealong beneath a roof which serves to cover the open tops of the drawers to prevent the livestock escaping, while they are transferred to a livestock unloading station at which the roof terminates. A conveyor for transferring open topped drawers containing livestock includes a roof below which the drawers are moved to prevent the livestock from escaping.

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A system for handling livestock comprising: (a) a housing having separate compartments in the form of slideable open topped drawers which can be slide at least from one side thereof completely from the housing, the housing and drawers forming a container, (b) the housing includes a framework which p

A system for handling livestock comprising: (a) a housing having separate compartments in the form of slideable open topped drawers which can be slide at least from one side thereof completely from the housing, the housing and drawers forming a container, (b) the housing includes a framework which provides guides on which the drawers can slide, (c) the said housing having a top panel which provides a cover for the upper most drawer or drawers, (d) each of the individual drawers below the upper most drawer or drawers being closed off (when in its pushed-in position) from the drawer above by at least the floor of the latter, (e) a transfer conveyor for receiving drawers removed from a container, (f) means for locating a container adjacent the transfer conveyor so that as a drawer is slid out from the container the underside registers with the transfer conveyor, (g) a roof spaced from and above the transfer conveyor for closing off the open tops of the drawers as they are transferred therealong so as to remove the tendency for livestock to jump or fly out of the drawers, and (h) an unloading station towards which the transfer conveyor moves the drawers beneath the said roof.