—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 28,1979
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By JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
'' BRODBECKS - Fourteen
years ago, Allen and Emma
Case moved west from rural
New Jersey to a farm near
the little southwestern York
County town of Brodbecks.
While visiting a friend in
nearby Glen Rock, the
family had fallen in love with
the countryside and decided
they wanted to stay.
Today, they’re operators
of Case Farm Hatchery,
Brodbecks Rl, and take
great pride in their
reputation as one of the few
remaining hatcheries to
specialise in selling to “the
little operator.”
“No order is too small” is
their philosophy and their
advertising. And dealing in
Emma Case packs anothers shipment of baby chicks. These day-olds are
Araucunas, the chicken variety known for laying pastel colored eggs.
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A roof overhead can mean a better
bottom line. Your Quonset man can
show you the dollars and cents of
livestock confinement
The choices in confinement housing
can be confusing—total confine
ment vs. open front, drive-through
vs. automated feeding, slatted floors
vs. solid. That's where your Quonset
man can help—by tailoring your
*lt’s definitely been
a poultryman’s year 9
small orders nas become a
full-time rapidly growing
business.
Both Allan and Emma
came from farm
backgrounds. She spent her
childhood on a general farm
and Allan’s folks ran a
family poultry operation.
Allan maintains the
technical details of the
hatchery and Emma is the
key sales force and public
relations specialist.
Visitors to the rolling hills
of the Case farm are greeted
by the welcoming chatter of
several hundred geese,
ducks, guineas, chickens and
peafowl.
With the exception of
turkeys, all poultry stock is
bred right on the Codorus
township farm. Emma Case
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All Quonset plants are ALSO quality-certified. Category MB
indicates that turkeys are
now being bred by artificial
insemination, a technique
for which they’re not
equipped, and therefore the
eggs are purchased in for the
incubators.
There are 13 varieties of
chickens available to suit
customer needs, including
layers like Golden Comets or
Rhode Island Reds, and
meat producers like Cornish
Rock Crosses.
Another specialty is
Araucanas, the hens famous
for laying delicate-pastel
colored “Easter eggs.”
Many chicks are raised to
the 26-week pullet stage and
sold ready to begin laying.
Four popular varieties of
geese are kept for hatchery
stock, with egg production
system to your needs. Whether
you're talking about confinement,
dairy operations or any other farm
use.
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Building Guide. Answers your ques
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layout plus specific guidelines on
your farm shop, animal confinement
or storage facility.
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heaviest in Springs Most
geese prefer to just hatch
their nests of nine or ten eggs
somewhere on the ground,
but the Cases set up laying
boxes on the outdoor pen
floors and gather the eggs
for the incubators..
Emden geese, the large
white-bodies variety, and
Toulose, heavy gray birds,
are preferred for their
feather and meat produc-
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