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—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. November 10. 1973
At Shaver Seminar
Poultrymen Get Info
"It’s becoming inueasmgJy
important for growers to select
breeding programs that allow
them to keep in step with market
changes,” Dr. Peter Hunton told
a group of poultrymen meeting
last week at Lancaster’s Ramada
Inn. Hunton is research coor
dinator for the Shaver poultry
breeding concern in Canada, and
was speaking at a Shaver
seminar sponsored by Greider
Farms, Mount Joy.
Hunton said it takes about five
years for breeders to breed new
characteristics into their birds.
“As breeders, we’ve got to do an
awful lot of guessing about where
the market is headed in the years
ahead,” Hunton said.
Hunton discussed the history of
hybrid chicken development and
went into the several methods of
breeding better stock. He also
commented on the changes in
demands from pullet buyers.
“I’ve seen tremendous changes
in what our customers are asking
for,” he said. “Ten years ago,
most people would have con
sidered egg numbers the most
important factor in choosing a
bird, with size running a close
second.
“Today, we get as many
complaints about eggs being too
big as we do about their being too
small. And a lot of birds are
approaching a physical plateau
in their production. It’s just not
possible to improve very much on
an egg a day. Customers today
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want better shells, better interior
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them. They also want more
Stiff Poultry
For Form Show Exhibitors
The threat of a possible out
break of exotic Newcastle
disease has prompted the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture to require stiffer
vaccination regulations for
poultrymen who will enter
exhibits at the 1974 Pennsylvania
Farm Show, January 7-11, it was
announced by Agriculture
Secretary Jim McHale.
Newcastle disease is a virus
infection of poultry and other
birds. It cannot be transmitted to
humans through the consumption
of eggs or other poultry products.
In the past few years,
Newcastle disease has been
responsible for the destruction of
many poultry flocks in Califor
nia.
Dr. E. T. Mallison, chief of the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture’s Poultry Health
Division, said the disease had
been brought under control
nationally. However, he said, “a
resurgence of exotic Newcastle
anywhere in the United States
remains a distinct possibility”
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economy in feed utilization, and
they want chickens that will eat
more exotic forms of nutrients."
Ray Delano took the speaker’s
Regulations
because of recent outbreaks in
Canada, New Jersey, Tennessee
and Kentucky.
Mallinson said these outbreaks
indicate the existence of “the
exotic Newcastle threat and of
the hazards posed by transport
and movement of all kinds of
poultry or birds.” This means the
danger of new outbreaks par
ticularly exists in poultry
exhibitions such as those
scheduled for the Farm Show.
Therefore, poultrymen who
plan to exhibit at the Farm Show
must;
- Prove their entries have been
vaccinated against Newcastle
disease not more than 90 days
and not less than 10 days before
entry in the show.
- Show their entries are from
flocks in which no new birds have
been added. Also entries must not
have been exhibited during the
three week period before the
entry date, January 5-6.
- Have entries that are free
from evidence of contagious
diseases and that were not
recently exposed to such
diseases.
- Prove their entries originate
from flocks or breeders officially
tested for pullorum disease
within the 12 months preceding
entry.
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lectern when Hunton had
finished. Delano is general
manager of the New England
Egg Marketing Association and
Egg Clearinghouse, Inc., in
Durham, New Hampshire. He
explained the workings of Egg
Clearinghouse, a trading center
for producers, packers and
marketers, and spelled out the
need for more cooperation bet
ween industry members.
“There’s a proposal now to
provide a marketing order for
eggs,” Delano said. “The in
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dustry has lost 28 percent of its
per capita consumption over the
past years because eggmen have
never been willing to pay for
promoting their product.”
Delano also charged that the
industry’s present ■ price
, discovery system is victimizing
producers. “The present New
York quotation is too far removed
from the actual market value of
the commodity,” he said. “The
industry is the victim of an out
dated price discovery system
that is based solely on one man’s
opinion. I think it’s time_for a
change.”
Other speakers for the day
included Dr. John Summers,
professor of animal science,
University of Guelph, Ontario,
and Doug Bundle of the Shaver
staff.
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