LPM 221: Commercial Poultry Production and Hatchery Management (1+1)

MAGNETIC SEPARATOR

• Magnets are used for arresting ferrous thrash from feed ingredients and final mixed feeds.
• Removing of the ferrous thrash is not only to free the feeds from dangerous ferrous articles, especially sharp nails and pieces, which can cause injury to the birds and to prevent damage to the costly machinery.
• Magnets can be placed at various plants, preferably at the point where the flow is comparatively thin and at slow speed.
• Plate magnet is kept in the feeding hopper of hammer mail and a grid magnet or drum magnet is kept at the mixed feed discharge chute to arrest the ferrous thrash.