The cattle breeder will find in this article for itself valuable information on how without scales it is possible to weigh an animal.
WEIGHING WITHOUT
Nowadays on the village such situation that here and there it is impossible to weigh cattle. We offer a way when when weighing animals it is possible to do without scales.
Live mass of an animal, in particular cows, determine by a way of measurement of a trunk a centimetric tape. Take two measurements: breast coverage behind shovels (lead round a tape round a trunk so that it mentioned a back corner of shovels and laid down under a breast at distance of 8-10 cm from an elbow) and slanting length of a trunk – from a forward ledge a joint shoulder-lopatkovogo to a back ledge of a buttock hillock.
At the top of the table across we find breast coverage behind shovels, and in the left vertical column – slanting length of a trunk. The figure received on crossing of these lines, also means live mass of an animal. Let’s assume, the slanting length of a trunk of 160 cm, and coverage of a breast of 180 cm live mass of an animal will make 452 kg.
(On materials Veterinarno ї to the newspaper).