Mark A Dekich

20060196428, Sep 7, 2006

Mar 3, 2005

11/069969

Rafael Correa - Salisbury MD, US
Mark Dekich - Salisbury MD, US
Erich Bevensee - Eden MD, US

A01K 45/00

119006800

The present invention provides a method for improving the hatchability of avian eggs which are vaccinated or otherwise injected in-ovo, especially in automated egg injection machines. The method injects the avian eggs during a specific period of time of between about 19 days post-fertilization to about 19 days, 8 hours, post-fertilization, and preferably between about 19 days, 4 hours, and about 19 days, 12 hours, post-fertilization. This specific time frame from in-ovo injection has been found to provide a significant increase in hatchability of eggs when compared with eggs injected at 18 days post-fertilization or after 19 days, 8 hours, post-fertilization.

20070006815, Jan 11, 2007

Jun 27, 2006

11/475236

Rafael Correa - Salisbury MD, US
Mark Dekich - Salisbury MD, US
William Samson - Salisbury MD, US
Erich Bevensee - Eden MD, US

A01K 31/04

119443000

A chicken or fowl grow out facility utilizes a ventilated floor assembly including a ventilated floor through which liquid and gas can flow, but which retains manure deposited thereon, and a closed bottom floor plenum underneath the ventilated floor, which includes a liquid and vapor barrier covering the ground surface. Blowers in an attic plenum can discharge warm air through hanging pleated conduit tubes into the floor plenum to provide heat through the ventilated floor. A plurality of indirect evaporative coolers and associated air blowers in the facility walls force outside air, cooled or uncooled, into the growth facility, and create higher pressure in the growth facility than the pressure in the floor plenum. Vacuum blowers associated with the floor plenum cause the flow of air and air-borne contaminates through the floor and exhaust same from the plenum to outside the facility which dries manure on the floor and reduces ammonia formation and pathogen growth. A movable power-driven pusher wall pushes the marketing age fowl onto a conveyor for harvesting.

20080195064, Aug 14, 2008

Jan 26, 2006

11/794963

Rafael S. Correa - Salisbury MD, US
Mark Anthony Dekich - Salisbury MD, US
Erich Frederick Bevensee - Eden MD, US
William Douglas Samson - Salisbury MD, US

A61D 7/00
A01K 29/00

604289, 119665

A vaccine spraying apparatus for vaccinating day-old chicks that includes a vaccine container with an agitation mechanism for mixing vaccine and diluent through controlled agitation. Vaccine is drawn from the container by a volumetric pump and dispensed through a plurality of spray nozzles mounted over a conveyor. Chicks contained in trays are moved along the conveyor to pass under the spray nozzles. The volume and orientation of the vaccine spray is controlled by a digital micro-control unit receiving data from a tracking device adjacent the conveyor that senses the position and speed of the trays.

20090126636, May 21, 2009

Nov 21, 2007

11/984757

Rafael S. Correa - Salisbury MD, US
Mark A. Dekich - Salisbury MD, US
William D. Samson - Salisbury MD, US
Erich F. Bevensee - Eden MD, US

A01K 45/00

119 68

An improved needle design is cut diagonally from two sides to form a sharpened cutting edge, rather than a point. The needle has an external diameter and wall thickness sufficient to provide the rigidity necessary to punch the egg shell while the sharpened edge provides a sharp cutting edge able to sever the underlying membrane cleanly and penetrate an embryo if necessary. The needle's penetrating edge design prevents needle tip fold-over and the resulting formation of a hook which can lead to cross-contamination of eggs and shortened needle life.

20110061601, Mar 17, 2011

Aug 31, 2010

12/923084

Rafael S. Correa - Salisbury MD, US
Mark Anthony Dekich - Salisbury MD, US
William D. Samson - Salisbury MD, US
Erich Frederik Bevensee - Eden MD, US

A01K 31/18
A01K 1/00
F24F 7/007

119437, 119448

A chicken or fowl grow out facility utilizes a ventilated floor assembly including a ventilated floor through which liquid and gas can flow, but which retains manure and other solids deposited thereon, and a bottom floor plenum underneath the ventilated floor. A liquid and vapor barrier sheet preferably covers the ground surface underneath the floor assembly which together insulate the high temperature of the grow-out facility from the heat sink effect of the lower temperature ground. Conventional tunnel ventilation of the chicken house through the ends of the house creates a negative pressure inside the house relative to the outside environment which is vented to the floor assembly plenum. As a result of this tunnel ventilation and negative pressure, moisture in the manure from urine and otherwise evaporates into the air in the growth chamber and floor assembly plenum to effectively keep dry the manure retained on the floor and reduce ammonia formation and pathogen growth.

20110067633, Mar 24, 2011

Jan 23, 2009

12/735521

Rafael S. Correa - Salisbury MD, US
William D. Samson - Salisbury MD, US
Mark A. Dekich - Salisbury MD, US

A01K 45/00
B65G 27/00

119 68, 1987521

An in-ovo egg injection machine generates and transmits vibration to an incubating egg tray to align the egg axes prior to injection. The mechanism can be used independently of the in-ovo egg injection machine and is suitable for use with an egg candling machine. With the eggs positioned on the incubating tray and held by egg tray posts with their large ends facing upward for the purposes of incubation, vibration is applied to the tray. The vibration allows the eggs to ‘float’ in their restricted locations in the egg tray. Since the eggs are naturally bottom-heavy, the heaviest portion of each egg moves down as the tray is vibrated. The eggs therefore self-align their axes into an orientation corresponding with the established vertical axes of the injectors, respectively, with no contact with the eggs being required.