—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September IS, 1979 138 Poultry men study broiler breeder stock NEWARK, Del. Anyone even slightly familiar with the modem broiler industry is aware of bow little time it takes to produce high quality broiler meat for the market these days. This level of production efficiency is unmatched anywhere else in the livestock industry. Improved management and disease control are partly responsible. But a lot of the credit goes to the primary breeders who gave us the grandparent stock for today’s broiler, points out University of Delaware Extension poultry specialist George Chaloupka. At this year’s Ex tension/industry sponsored Delmarva Hatchery and Breeder Flock Management Short Course at the University of Delaware’s Georgetown Substation, Joseph Bush completes auction course ELVERSON - Joseph Bush, of Elverson, recently returned from Kansas City, Mo., where he completed the course in auctioneering and auction sales management at the Missouri Auction School. The concentrated two week course is conducted at the world’s largest auction training center in the Kansas City Stockyards. His training included lectures and work-shops. He participated m selling public auctions in Kansas City and nearby com munities in Missouri and Kansas. Subjects covered included antique auctions, livestock, furniture, business liquidations, real estate, rare com, auto, machinery, general merchandise, all types of estate auctions, and lie rapid fire chant of the tobacco auctioneer. USED SUPER B AUTOMATIC BATCH DRYER FOR SALE Used only 2 seasons, capacity rated by manufacturer at 8000 bu. per 24 hrs. based on 10 pt. removal to 15%. Outstanding con dition, kept under roof. ASCS LOAN-APPROVED DEALER “FREE": Building and Gram Storage Systems Planning Services based on our many years of experience and new modern concepts. Please call! representatives of some of the nation's top primary breeder firms discussed “What’s New” in this segment of the broiler in dustry. Not surprisingly, economics has a big in fluence on the type of broiler chicken being bred today. “I believe that basically we’re doing the same things breeders have done in the past,” says Dr. William A. Risbell, director of research and development at Arbor Acres Farm, Inc., of Glastonbury, Conn. “We’re exercising genetic selection in order to improve economic traits of birds used to produce broiler meat.” All that’s changed is the em phasis. Today’s efforts are aimed at developing the kind of bird that will produce the most meat most efficiently. ERNON MYERS, INC. STEEL BUILDINGS & GRAIN STORAGE Ph0ne:(717)867-4139 Traits being looked for at Arbor Acres Farms are yield (including grade and con donation), feed conversion, and growth rate factors which seriously affect feed cost and market value of the processed product. Com pared to these traits, Risheli considers egg laying and other reproductive traits to be of less economic im portance in the industry right now. Better meat producing broiler stock from Arbor Acres Farms’ current breeding efforts should be available by about mid-1982, he predicts. Looking into the future, another poultry breeder, Dr. J.G. Smith, who’s in charge of the Hubbard Farms breeding and research Quonsex Look what's happened to the hut! COMMERCIAL and AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS We Offer Complete Erection On Any Size Or Style Building. J[ Coupon Today! I ■ □ SEND STEEL BUILDINGS LITERATURE | □ SEND GRAIN STORAGE LITERATURE ® NAME J ADDRESS _ j CITY ■ TELEPHONE program m Walpole, N.H., foresees a number of changes taking place. Breeder cockerels with improved fertility and hatchability, better broiler feed conversion and processor traits are all on the horizon, he says. Biochemical breeding is also being vigorously pursued by poultry researchers, while artificial insemination and freezing of chicken semen could become commercial realities. Breeders free of all lymphoid leucosis viruses are just around the corner or already here. And m the near future there could well be a breakthrough in the area of Salmonella serotype eradication. Development of a more feed-efficient broiler chicken could well mean leaner meat for the consumer, according to Dr. John F. Tierce, director of Indian River International’s primary breeder operation at Nacogdoches, Texas. His researchers report a strong correlation between superior feed efficiency and reduced body fat, though not between feed efficiency and growth rate of broilers. So breeders at Indian River are screening out individuals that show excellent growth but poor feed efficiency. The result of this kind of selec tive breeding could be a broiler five years from now with today’s excellent growth rate, but a marked improvement in feed ef ficiency and reduced fat. 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