tory, automation has made it possible. Coping with the marketing ipments and delicate financial balances are poultrymen such as Robah ;reme right, who have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in their reducing facilities. One of the dangers of it all is the possibility of losing one Hess is testing, above, ever since, but instead of the old coop, he has three long underway to have the old structure replaced by a modern ;rn houses which measure 200,300, and 500 feet in length, facility complete with decks of cages and automatic ■ got into a comparatively modern poultry bam in equipment. hen he decided to have a long wooden structure built A member of state and local poultry associations, Hess has turned out to be one of the first in the County equipped been an independent producer throughout his years in the single row of cages. The layer house was built a egg business. “I prefer it that way,” he stated simply, “I take iat a time, as it became affordable. Hess recalled how the most risks that way, but I also gain the most when there’s yone was sure we were going to go broke by Summer,” something to gain.” It’s a philosophy which fits neatly into hasn’t happened yet during 22 years. Today that gamp Hess’s belief of not giving up and proceeding with a schedule. stands abandoned and weather beaten. It once He markets his eggs through the R.W. Sauder Company of jup to 5000 layers in a single row of cages designed to Lititz. individual performance records. “That was the thing The experienced egg farmer has a price situation outlook pushed at that time,” Hess recollected. Work is which considers the prices of 1976 as having been “too high tTf' FARROWING MODELS MODEL SC-1232-6 1 * A 23 X 32-ft farrowing building with 6 farrowing stalls One 50,000 BTU furnace Six 500-watt supplemental heaters for pigs One modulator-operated constant running vent fan Code No 25-4050 MODEL SC-1240-8 A12x40-ft farrowing building with 8 farrowing stalls Has two 50,000 BTU furnaces, plus eight 500-watt sup plemental pig heaters One modulator operated constant running vent fan, plus one thermostat-controlled vent fan Code No 25-4046 MODEL SC-1250-10 A 12x50-ft farrowing stalls Two 50,000 BTU fur- lj| ?! j 1 I L naces Ten 500-watt sup plemental heaters for pigs One modulator-operated constant running vent fan. plus one thermostat-controlled vent fan in opposite end of building Code No 25-404 7 MODEL SC-2432-12 A 24x32-(t farrowing building with 12 farrow ing stalls Two 50,000 BTU furnaces Six 500- watt supplemental heaters for pigs One modulator-operated constant running vent (an plus one thermostat-controlled vent fan Code No 25-4048 MODEL SC-2450-20 A 24X50-U (arrowing building with 20 (arrowing stalls Two 50 000 BTU fur naces Ten 500 watt sup plemental heaters (or pigs One modulator-operated constant running vent fan plus two thermostat-controlled vent fans Code No 25-4049 E. M. Herr Equipment, Inc. R.D. 1 Willow St, PA Lancaster Co. 717-464-3321 t 1 n j r j i ' 4, electric power. If the fans aren't working to provide fresh air constantly, the tens of thousands of layers in any one building would die within 20 minutes. That's why Hess and other poultrymen have big powerplants of their own, such as the n i 1 D ' tj II ~l h- O 0 1 I " ~l r * il FARROWING/HURSERY models MODEL SCN-1232-4-2 A 12 x 32-ft farrowmg/nursery building with 4 farrowing stalls, plus 2 nursery pens for up to 75 pigs The latter are about 6xB ft each in size, have slotted floor, have one nipple waterer each, and are made of AGSTAR HOG-TITE* tube-type pen parti tions Building has one 50,000 BTU furnace, six 500-watt supplemental pig heaters One modulator-operated constant running vent fan Code No 25-4055 MODEL SCN-1240-6-4 A 1 <?x 40-ft farrowmg/nursery building with 6 farrowing stalls, plus 4 nursery pens for up to, about 75 pigs The latter are about 5x5 ft each in size, have slotted floor, have nipple waterers, and are made of AGSTAR HOG-TITE* tube-type pen partitions Building has two 50,000 BID furnaces, plus eight 500-watt sup plemental pig heaters One modulator-operated constant running vent fan, plus one thermostat-controlled vent fan Code No 25-4058 MODEL SCN-12504M i . I_. | _g J 9 3 I A 12x50-ft farrowing/ - nursery building with 8 Rp” r farrowing stalls, plus 4 K Cl —^ ' _____Jj _ nursery pens for up to 75 pigs The latter are about 5x 5 ft each in size, have slotted floor, have one nipple waterer each, and ar«* made of AGSTAR HOG-TITE* tube-type pen partitions Building has two 50,000 BTU furnaces ten 500-watt supplemental heaters for pigs One modulator-operated constant running vent fan, plus one thermostat-controlled vent fan Code No 25-4054 MODEL SCN-2450-16-8 A 24 x 50-ft farrow ing/nursery building with 16 (arrowing stalls plus 8 nursery pens The lat ter are about 5x5 ft each in size have slot ted floor have one nip pie waterer and are made of AGSTAR HOG-TITE* tube-type pen partitions One all welded nursery feeder serves two pens (5 feed openings each pen) Building has two 50 000 BTU furnaces twelve 500-watt supplemental pig heaters One modulator-operated constant running vent fan plus two thermostat-controlled vent fans Code No 25-4052 Lancaster Farming, Saturda; V* T * * if i for the good of the industry.” He foretells a sharp drop m the market which will harm some producers. “Anybody who didn’t make money with eggs last year should seriously consider doing something else,” he suggested. One of the methods Hess uses to keep production fairly constant at his 70,000 hen operation, is to keep three different age groups of birds. He replaces just one house of birds at a time, instead of the entire flock. The production of 55,000 eggs per day requires a daily feed bill of approximately $lOOO. The veteran poultryman has a few ideas which he hopes will someday be adopted by the entire industry. One idea is to have eggs marketed by the pound, rather than the dozen. L(:: I L =. r 1 - up I h ! ,1 March 26.1977—65 * fete • mm i » 4 I < ! 1 <y. •a i - -* i i ib 1 i 1 ' 1 t i i. J I 3 h
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