Dl4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 1,1984
BY JACK RUBLEY
LANCASTER - Mike Midgley
first learned of the benefits of
intermittent lighting for poultry
production four years ago during a
visit to New York’s Cornell
University.
Returning home to his native
England, the manager of a 1.5-
million-bird layer flock decided to
test the principle. Midgely soon
found not only a decrease in feed
and light bills, but an increase in
egg size, as well.
Such savings are vital to Great
Britain’s egg producers, who,
according to Midgley, pay the
equivalent of $202 per ton for feed.
According to Bill Markey,
manager of the poultry division of
Keystone Mills in Ephrata,
decreasing the duration while at
the same time increasing the
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British ag official looks at Northeast poultry
frequency of light periods m a
layer house results in savings in a
number of ways. Since birds eat
less at a time, but more frequently,
their digestive systems assimilate
food more completely and ef
ficiently. And since the total
duration of darkness is increased,
birds use less energy.
Midgley is currently a poultry
husbandly advisory officer for the
United Kingdom’s Ministry of
Agriculture, the agency presently
conducting intermittent lighting
research in Great Britain.
“We’re currently running ex
periments looking at the Cornell
program, against the Ralston
Purina program (Bio-mittent
lighting), against a conventional
control,” Midgley said, adding that
partway through the experiments,
the Ralston program seems to be
producing the best results. termittent lighting systems in nation’s first farmer to employ
Midgley’s 12-day U.S. tour in- actual practice. Ralston Purina’s Bio-mittent
eluded visits to the University of The tour ended in Lancaster lighting system. His 50,000-bird
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well as a number of New “York Miller, a Conestoga poultry and Bio-mittent lighting four years
State farm visits for a look at in- swine producer. Miller was the ago.
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Pausing for a lunch break at Willow Valley Farms on August 17, are (left) Bill Markey of
Keystone Mills, Mike Midgley of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Agriculture, and
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