A24-Lanc«ster Farming, Saturday, June 1,1985
Dry cow jhousing
waste water in the receiving pit.
This semi-solid mix is pumped
through an underground 12-inch
pipe to the 48 x 52 x 12 storage,
neatly camouflaged by an at
tractive wooden structure built
around it.
Chopping the wastes keeps it
fairly liquid, and emptying is
simplified by having the slurry
simply gravity flow into a “semi
solid” spreader, backed under the
unloader mechanism built into the
hill.
Rodney, his wife, Joyce, and
their children live on the home
farm, where the milking and dry
cow bams are located. Robert and
his wife, Lisa, make their home on
the adjoining farm, where calves
and heifers are raised.
Calves go into plywood and wire
fronted hutches, then during the
summer, are moved at six weeks
of age to a section of the pole-ham
heifer building put up in 1976.
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In winter, though, a ditterent
weanling housing is used. Calves
go from their individual hutches
into a “super-hutch,” a Penn State
conception praised by the Smysers
for its effectiveness in calf
housing.
Their super-hutch is a former
chicken house, divided into two
pens sizeable enough to hold five or
six young heifers. The front of each
side is open to the south, but
covered with a wire door that
swings out for access. This wire
covered door allows winter sun to
shine on calves, but remains tight
enough to keep birds from roosting
within. Heated waterers and a
trough across the full length of the
front keep the super-hutch a low
labor, but highly-effective, method
of raising weanlings.
Because there is no cross
ventilation, however, the super
hutch will heat quickly in hot
weather, and is vacated from
spring through fall.
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conduct more effective
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for all rabies vaccines. Subsequent
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depending on the duration of im
munity established for the in
dividual product.
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