Sire Power expands housing
TUNKHANNOCK - Sire
Power’s Gold Sire Development
Program has more than tripled in
the last ten years and by next year
is expected to be four times as
large as it was in 1972.
As a result of the increased
demand for Sire Power semen and
the expanded Gold Program, there
is a need for more sire housing.
Sire Power recently purchased
Donald William’s farm of 286
acres, and an additional fifty acres
of crop land from Harold Grow.
This land will be the Site of ex
panded bull housing and a new
isolation bam.
The land is located three miles
from the current facilities at
Tunkhannock. This will provide
additional herd health safeguards.
Plans are to continue to utilize the
facilities at Frederick, Md. to
house bulls indefinitely.
Construction of barns began in
early June with one barn recently
completed. Each barn is 465 feet
long and houses 40 bulls in H’x22’
individual pens. The barns are
open to the southeast.
On Nov. 30, the first bulls were
moved over to the newly com
pleted barn. The size and comfort
of each pen allows for excellent
individual care of the bulls. In each
barn of 40 bulls, there is a clinic
area to adequately handle the bulls
for necessary veterinary attention.
These three barns are the first
step in this expansion project
undertaken by the Sire Power
organization for 1983 and projected
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to build a new expanded isolation
facility in 1984, and then over the
next three years, build three
similar barns. This will provide
housing for 450 bulls and should
meet the housing needs for the next
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