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BY JACK HUBLEY
KUTZTOWN Things have
changed quite a bit around Schick
Farms since Herb Schick built his
first farrowing house and began
selling feeder pigs in 1960.
For one thing, Herb now has two
partners; sons Otto, 29, and Paul,
25, to help shoulder the respon
sibility for caring for the farm’s
200-plus sows, and marketing 3,000
hogs a year.
And then, of course, there’s the
new technology permeating all
phases of the livestock industry,
and taking pork production by
storm.
Last year, with the help of Penn
Incoming
Herb Schick (left), along with son
Paul, inspects the ten tubes feeding
air to farrowing and nursery building
in the background.
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State agricultural engineer Dan
Myer, and swine specialist Matt
Parsons, the Schick family
committed itself to the swine
revolution. At their farm, located
10 miles north of Kutztown in
Berks County, the Schicks built
two new farrowing rooms and
equipped them-along with their
new nursery built one year earlier
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cooling system.
The two new farrowing rooms,
each containing 12 crates, along
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Air is pulled through tubes by a
pair of 10-inch fans. Each fan collects
air from a set of five tubes surfacing
in a compartment behind the wall.
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with the two 10-pen nursery rooms,
have boosted Schick’s production
considerably. Best of all, the new
housing has proven to be the most
energy efficient that the family has
ever used.
The system owes its efficiency to
the earth’s warmth stored beneath
the surface throughout even the
coldest months. Schick Farms
takes advantage of this stored
energy by drawing air through 10
flexible hoses located six feet
underground. On its 130-foot
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subterranean journey to the pork
factory, the air is warmed 40° or
more.
“During the winter, the outside
air enters our buildings at about
53°,” Herb says. “Even with the
temperature holding around zero
last winter, that air was in the low
40’s by the time it got inside.”
During the summer, this piped
air has just the opposite affect on
interior temperatures. Never
losing its cool even during the
hottest months, the earth lowers
the temperature of incoming air
and forces suspended moisture to
condense. Sloping the pipes away
from the building and having them
exit the ground at the foot of an
embankment to the rear of the
farrowing house, enables the
system to rid itself of this con
densation. The air entering the
buildings, then, is not only cooler,
but drier than outside air, as well.
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respectively. Air enters farrowing
and nursery areas through vents at
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Providing the pulling power for
the system are two 10-inch fans,
each one responsible for drawing
air through five of the tubes sur
facing in the building within a
centrally located utility room. It is
in this room where, during the
winter, supplemental heat can be
added by means of a gas heater.
The warm air then flows upward
and enters adjacent farrowing and
nursery areas through vents
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