New Products
PP Belt Under Slats
Fitted beneath the slats in free range laying, barn egg or breeder parent stock houses, polypropylene belts are an easy and very efficient method of regularly cleaning out the droppings pits and depositing the manure into a trailer or store outside, at the opposite end of the building to the egg packing and service area, via another conveyor across the shed.
The belts are in one or more section each up to 1.80 metres wide and carried by sturdy galvanized and stainless steel structures that are easy to assemble, and which also support the SKA 'Aries' or 'Orion' polypropylene slats, which in the case of commercial layers, can be lower at the 'scratching' area end than is often the case
The structures are very versatile, and can be used with all the versions of SKA 'Avio' automatic nests, double sided, single sided, with 300mm or 500mm wide collection belts, with 'Avio-S' nests which have slats and belt on top and in conventional static or in mobile houses.
The belts are powered by drive units with motors to suit the length of the particular building. Regulation of the belt tension is by simple adjustment screws.
SKA have used their many years of experience in designing and building manure conveyor systems to produce an easy to maintain method of managing an important aspect of alternative types of egg production, without the need for deep pit type buildings.
The operation can be started and stopped automatically, controlled by a timeswitch or turned on and off by hand once or twice a week.
The much reduced amount of droppings stored inside the house has an important advantages of significantly lowering ammonia levels, improving the atmosphere and the health of the flock, and saving a lot of time and energy at the end of each laying period.
•Belts are fitted under he slats, and the enviroment inside the house is improved by increased efficiency and easier management.
•Various sizes possible from 2 to 6 slats wide, to suit your requirements.
•Possible to convey all of the droppings to one place, once or twice a week.
•Significant cost and labour saving when cleaning out between flocks.
Light Control Dimmer
A new controller is now available for Orion compact fluorescent lighting, to make it easier to implement the different specific lighting programs that have been developed for broilers, pullet rearing and layers.
Typically, for broilers, three, four or five lines of light, 50% of each or which are blue and 50% green, and installed into each broiler house, depending upon the width.
The green lamps have to be switched on and off separately from the blue ones, and for different periods amd day lengths depending upon the age of the birds. The light intensity is varied too, from a starting level of 20 to 25 lux down to 4 to 6 lux, with short periods of 12 to 15 lux after 26 days.
There are programs for blue and green lighting for pullet rearing, and for red and white lighting for layers too, within the internal computer, all with standard default settings, any of which can be varied by the operator to suit their own particular circumstances and preferences.
Each unit can control two groups of up to 80 lamps, which in turn can be operated at maximum illumination, dimmed between 99 and 50%, or turned off.
There are built in capacitors to correct the power factor, and optimise the efficiency of the low energy consumption of the 'Orionlux' 7, 9 and 11 watt, and 'Superlux' 11 watt lamps.
Item Cost £475.00
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