—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 11,1978
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Baby pigs are born with a minimum amount of energy available, and very tittle perature readings, PenirState specialists advise thermometers be placed near
fat. They need draft-free warm surroundings. To help assure accurate tern • the floor, not at eye level.
Pampered pigs produce preferred pork
By DIETER KRIEG
LANCASTER - Penn
State’s livestock Extension
specialist, Dwight YounMn,
is very concerned about the
proper care of pigs. Most of
his concern is directed to the
younger members of the
species. Oftentimes he sees
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pigs shivering or laying on
top of each other. Those are
not good signs of proper pork
production, the grand
fatherly professor em
phasizes.
Baby pigs, says Younkin,
are bom with less energy
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available to them than any
other farm animals, and
they have very little fat.
Consequently, they demand
proper care from the
moment they’re bom. Their
low body reserves make
them virtually helpless
against the cold and drafty
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conditions of some farrowing
houses.
Although some hog
producers claim their
farrowing houses are warm
enough, and will even point
at a thermometer, Younkin
points out that the ther
mometer at eye level gives
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an inaccurate measurement
of warmth available to the
pigs. He recommends the
thermometer be placed low,
near the floor where the pigs
spend their time. The same
is true for odor detection.
Younkin also urges pig
farmers to furnish some
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form of auxiliary heat in
their swine buildings,
claiming that pigs can’t be
expected to keep warm op
their own during the'severe
ly cold weather of recent
months. Proof, he says, is
evident when he sees pigs
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By KENDACE BORRI
READING - Speak
exhibits, and films v
featured at the Berks Coi
Horse Expo 78. Held at
Berks County Agriculti
Center, the theme of
event was Understam
Equine. It was sponsoret
the Berks County Extern
Service and 4-H Horse cli
horse breed associations
local horse clubs.
Several booths were se 1
throughout the 4-H cei
giving a variety of
formation on the m
aspects of horses and ho
back riding.
Throughout the (
speakers covered sevi
assorted topics concert
the care of horses.
V J ■ Dr. Homer S. Fon
from the Pa. Bureau
animal industry, spoke
the disease equine infecti
anemia, commonly km
as swamp fever. The disc
which weakens i
sometimes kills infer
animals, spreads readily
may be difficult to asceri
because it can take m
forms and resemble ot
fever producing disease
can be diagnosed by
Coggins test.
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The disease is caused I
virus found in the blood
tissues of infected anim
This virus remains in
blood of animals t
recover and in the bloo<
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