Description

Alnico Cow magnets, widely to veterinary, feed supply and scientific supply sources. When the cow grazes, it often consumes and swallows what is called tramp iron: baling and barbed wire, nails, staples, and other metallic objects. These tramp iron is indigestible and tends to lodge in the honeycombed walls of the reticulum, causing irritation and inflammation, known as Hardware Disease, resulting in lower milk production for diary cattle or lower weight gain for feeder stock.
Cow magnets help prevent this disease by attracting stray metal from being lodged in the animal’s tissue. A rancher or diary farmer feeds a magnet each calf at branding time. The magnet settles in the rumen or reticulum and remains there for the life of the animal.