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PA Goodville, PA ★ IDES., JAN. 24 ■ 7:30 PM ★ ★ WED, lAN. 25 • 7:30 PM ★ * MARTIN HOOVER’S * ★ PEMRVN FIRE HALL * Denver, PA Penryn, PA ★ WED., JAN. 25 2:00 PM ★ ★ THURS., JAN. 26 • 7:30 PM ★ rwrtmrmm, New swine confinement {Continued from Page 12) Fowler characterizes the changes these developments brought to the industry with the fact that swine farmers have now gone into year round production. Since many swine producers used to let their sows farrow only during the spring after planting and during the fall after harvest, the result was an unbalanced - and un profitable economic situation. “There was a depressed market at sale tune and an elevated market for the rest of the year,” says Fowler. “Producers now break down production into year-round farrowing, by breeding sows throughout the year and weaning at an earlier age.” One of the techniques Fowler and Lowe will be using at the new swine unit to get the sows to come into heat is to switch them around into different pens. Since sows always establish a pecking order within each pen, each time they are regrouped they will fight until a leader has been established. Fighting and stress will usually induce the estrus-or heat-cycle. Taking the hogs out of their natural, outdoor en vironment creates more problems within the swine community than were originally expected. Whereas in nature the pigs can obtain enough iron from rooting around in the soil to keep them healthy, pigs raised in confinement have no way of getting that iron. Thus, another experiment conducted at the swine unit, according to Lowe, will be that of giving the newborn pigs iron by oral and injected dosages and then comparing the results. Artificial insemination is another problem to be considered. Though ar tificial insemination would be as great a boost to the swine industry as it has been to the cattle industry, there Two ways to reduce fuel costs. 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In addition to in creasing breeding control and maintaining better disease control, artificial insemination would eliminate the problem of getting hogs to breed in the unnatural setting of a con crete building. “We also hope to ex periment with cross breeding,” says Lowe, who was raised on a Sussex County farm. “Duroc, York and Hampshires are the major swine breeds and each is noted for a different quality... Yorks for their mothering ability, Durocs for their growth and feed conversion, and Hampshires for their carcass quality. By cross-breeding these varieties, we hope to develop a gilt which is better adapted to confinement life. ” Lowe and Fowler will also be considering the problem of estrus synchronization, or breeding all gilts at the same time to make the farrowing operation easier. In addition, they will always double breed the sows as research shows they can get one extra pig per litter by so doing. “One of the first projects we will be conducting is on a product called dichlorovos which is fed to sows for deworming,” says Fowler. “It has been discovered that if this substance is fed to sows at low levels during late gestation for a continual period of tune, it will in crease litter sizes.” Experiments with dichlorovos and most of the other subjects to be con sidered at the Substation swine unit have already been conducted in many of the bigger hog-producing midwestern states. But Fowler feels these techniques should be localized and demonstrated under Delaware conditions. 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Smce Wed nesday will be designated as Visiting Day at the unit, Folwer expects the same farmers to come back several times each year for advice. “The increase of swine production in Delaware can be attributed to the fact that farmers who were already raising hogs are expanding their facilities rather than new farmers going mto the industry,” explains Fowler. “Now our job is to help them iron out the problems they might be -having with the new facilities.” With a total annual production of 100,000 hogs and a gross annual income of $4 million, Delaware swine production already plays a significant role in the state’s overall agricultural picture. But the establishment of the unit and the dedication of the Extension swine specialists to the task of solving the problems of the confinement system can only serve to improve the swine industry’s status m Delaware. have a nice weekend... pray a little ioa tel' Pi M;i .taJ (1 DISTRIBUTED BY: Rock Ridge Rd. Revere, PA 18953 (215)847-2224 13