Apparatus for the separate collection of faeces and urine from cows

Abstract

The cost of conducting digestibility trials with cows is high, due to the need for either elaborate equipment for separating faeces and urine or a considerable number of assistants to remain constantly behind the cows catching the excreta as they are voided. Manual collection of excreta was used extensively by earlier workers, and, in a recent report of the most suitable arrangements for experiments using this method, Eheart, Holdaway & Pratt (1945) found that one attendant was necessary for every cow on test with a trained chemist also present in the shed at all times.