• Hog House "~ r '' r edC Tl h h6,f lee „ der
w Water, under pressure, sup
(Continuod from Page 6) plies drinking bowls in eaeh ?
*1 the present time is finding pe^ i but four units ol six iiens
a sufficient supply of healthy ,>ach <an be put on imdiuled
feeder mgs, but Beam is water anv time tluough a
working on solving that urn- senes o£. valves in the lines
blem. Another son Om.ir has Water in a 500 gallon tank
u herd of sows and gilts which hanging irom the raitoi s tan
will furnish nearly hall be medicaUd and piped into „
enough pigs> lor the opera- the regular drinking bowls
tion, and'Beam is working on whenever necessary
a contract with another farm- ,
j w Twelve fans, six on eaeh
to furnish the rest of the ,
* , , , ~ i S’tde of the building, keep
roouired feeders But until . , *■
x „ , „ both temperature and humidi
tbese two operations get into , ' , , ,
lub , , . ty under control in the house
fall producion, beam is look- .
1 f . , , Automatic controls sensi ive
lag for teeder pigs wherever ,
1 h . a ,v.„ to both temperature and liunii-
CdU -k ln ,v dity, turn the fans to puli in
He hopes to move the pigs , 1
, „ , . fresh air or expell stale air as
into the pens at about 30
, , . , needed,
pounds and move them
through a succession ot perns Insulation on the side walls
to the other end of the house telling "ill help keep the
pnt'l marketing at about ‘JOO budding cool m sunimci and
pounds. warm in wintei WVt vveie in
The pens, approximately one bouse in Indiana when the
7 120’ are designed to bold 20 temperature outside was
market-weight hogs zero Beam said, ‘and inside
ftthen the pigs go into the t^le bouse it was 45
pens at the North end ot the Beam leah/es the* disease
buildmg. they will be put on contiol is going to be one ot
a starter feed, hut as they bis big pioblenis With this
grow, the ration will be ihang- m mind he asks visitois to
«ti to a giowmg feed There stop at the door and dismiect
«re two separate bulk bins their shoes betoie enteiing
located over the roof at the 'The pigs themselves are in
cods of the building Twelve lected lor cholera hetoie mid- THE WATER SUPPLY IN ANY SIX OF THE 24 pens in the hog feeding
of the 24 pens are fed from - a feeding space m the house can be medicated through the use of the overhead tank shown here On
£ r t^tTa 2: °wuh a set-up as new as the wall to the right of the water tank is the hopper for the automatic feeder,
pen to another as they gam this, there aie questions still Chains carry the feed from the hopper to the plastic tube, at the extreme right
■wf'ght. to be answered, but when you edge of the picture, and into the self feeders Feed is fed into the hopper by
Self feeders m each pen are talk with William Bea n, you g rav ity from an overhead bulk bin outside the building. The pan of disinfectant
tout filled by two automatic soon realize he will und the j Ust j nsl( j e the door is part of a rigorous disease control program,
feeders which carry the feed answers - it he doesn i have go go
by chain to plastic tubes over them alieady.
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