A2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 27,1981
BY SHEIL A MILLER
REINHOLDS The most recent
addition to the string ot Dekalb
swine crossing farms scattered
across the country has been
constructed in Lancaster County.
The 500 sow tarrow-io-tmish
complex was open tor public
scrutiny yesterday for the first and
last tune. Once the breeding swine
move m next month, the complex
will be a closed environment to
allow maximum disease control,
and visitors will be carefully
screened.
The complex, which will be
populated with Dekalb foundation
stock from Illinois, is owned by a
corporation of local farmers and
businessmen known as Middle
Creek Swine Breeders, Inc. The
fourteen-member corporation
includes: Ezra Good, Fivepomt
ville, president; Eugene Martin,
Work crews put the finishing touches on the _jy. new com] jx is si
500 sow Dekalb crossing complex early this Route 897 in northern Lancaster
week in preparation for the Middle Creek of Reinholds.
Swine Breeders. Inc. open house, held
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Kemholds, vice president, Paul
Weaver, Farmersville, treasurer;
George Christianson, Lebanon,
secretary, Leon Hoover, Myer
stown; Robert Graybill, Lan
caster; James Martin, Lebanon;
Robert Martui, I'erre Hill; Aaron
Horst, Terre Hill; Titus Weaver,
Ephrata; Elmer Martin, Ephrata;
Dr. Edward Zobian, Reading;
Lloyd Good, Denver; and Leon
Kurtz, Ephrata.
According to Larry Horst, a
spokesman for the corporation,
replacement gilts raised at the
complex will be ready for
placement into local swine herds
by July and August of next year.
The corporation anticipates
marketing 2.000 selei breeding
gilts each year.
Only half of the gilts farrowed in
the house will be ‘earmarked’ tor
potential breeding animals. The
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final selection ot which gilts make
the grade wilP be decided *. .■
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AU unselecled gilts and uauows
will be shipped to Hatfield Packing
as market hugs
For eveiy gdi selected by
Dekalb as leplacement stock.
Middle Creek Swine Breeders, Inc.
will receive a premium, reported
Horst, who added there is a
potential market for about 2,UUO
replacements to meet the needs of
local farms.
“Previously, the closest Dekalb
crossing farm was located in North
Carolina. That meant trucking
costs and stress to the hogs.” tie
said. "Now, farmers' can buy a
local pig and better qi-ahty
replacement.”
Managing the total confinement
facility wili be the responsbihty ot
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is presently managuig a iooo sow
Dekalb herd in Kansas.
The complex’s budding was
designed by Dekalb and Farmer
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shower-m, shower-out’ facility to
offer both a men's and women’s
shower.
Each farrowing room features 20
narrow tarrowing crates of
European design that provide an IS
inch clearance inside and a bottom
rad clearance ot 30 inches.
“This design keeps more pigs
alive,” explained Horst, “because
it forces the sow to lie
down and get up more slowly—she
avoids crushing her pigs.”
The crate’s design also has the
side bars bowed .out to allow the
sow to lay over completely. This
permits her total underline to be
exposed to the nursing pigs.
. From tarrowuig to gestation, the
uneeding swine dine and dnnk out
ut concrete troughs. Fresh water
flows through the troughs con
stantly except during feeding. This
concept has the advantages of
keeping pens drier, requiring less
maintenance and wasting less
feed, stated Horst.
The sows are ted automatically
in the gestation room, but are hand
ted in the six tarrowing rooms.
Those sows that are automatically
ted have their own adjustable feed
boxes which can be set to dump
from 0-7 pounds ot feed in front ot
each sow.
The automatic feeders allow the
facihty’s manager more tune to
observe the sows. They also reduce
the stress and screaming in the
herd since all the hogs are fed at
once, explained Horst.
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These woven floors allow manure
to drop down into pits which are
flushed out contmuiiusl/.
Middle Creek’s manure system
is the first ot its kind to be installed
in a tarrowing operation in the
East, noted Horst. The Lissco
system incorporates an aerated
lagoon with a solids separator.
Manure collected in the pits is >
flushed to the separator where the
solids are extracted and the waste
water is piped out to the lagoon. ,
The solids will be fed to beef cattle
in a corporation member’s feedlot,
according to Horst who claims it
"comes out like silage.”
"The manure from the separator
is 70 percent moisture. This
manure either has to be dried or
used within 48 hours. We plan to
feed it at 70 percent moisture and
add nutrients and protein to the
cattle’s diets,” he said, noting an
analysis of 'wastage’ measured 14
percent protein. u)
The waste water that is stored in
the lagoon wih<be irngated omo
crophelds once a/year. The rest ot
the year, daily aeration ot the
water is claimed to eliminate odor
and balance the acids in the waste
water, along with stabilizing the
' nitrogen and neutralizing bacteria.
Betore waste water is
sprayed onto the crops, it will be
reused to tlusb the manure pits at
the rate of 100,000 gallons a day.
Horst claimed there is no problem
with recycling disease along with
the waste water, and the con
tinuous flow ot water through the
pits means "no gas, no dust, and no
odor.”
The lagoon also is the 'catch
basin’ tor excess tresh water that
flows through the troughs and the
pen wash-down water. This adds
up to an additional 20,000 gallons ot
water per day.
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