BY DONNA MCCONAUGHEY
Staff Correspondent
LEBANON - The Pennsylvania
Yorkshire and Duroc Breeders
Associations held their annual
Summer Show and Sale at the
Lebanon County Fairgrounds
recently.
The agenda included a Junior
Livestock Judging Contest, market
hog show, live animal evaluation
contest and educational contest
conducted by Ken Kephart, Penn
State Swine Specialist, and a show
and sale of breeding stock.
The livestock judging contest
was a first for this event. The
breeders hoped to encourage
juniors involved in livestock
projects to further their selection
skills through participating in this
event.
Busy Acre Farms owned by
Calvin Lazarus and Sons exhibited
a strong showing in both the
breeding and market shows. Grant
Lazarus represented the firm and
won the champion bred gilt, and
the champion boar in the
Yorkshire show. In the Duroc
competition they showed the
champion and reserve champion
bred gilts, reserve champion open
gilt, and reserve champion boar.
In the market show Lazarus
exhibited the Champion Barrow.
York countian David Holloway
showed the champion Duroc boar
and champion Duroc open gilt.
This pair of littermates also
carried a pedigree of excellence.
Their dam produced the champion
production barrow at the
Maryland State Fair. The sire was
the champion boar at the 1984
Maryland State Fair.
Larry Arnold exhibited the
reserve champion Duroc boar, a
fall boar out of RB Extra 23-3.
Tom Arnold bred the reserve
champion Yorkshire bred gilt. She
was an August gilt out of “Austy,”
the sire of the top gaining -pen at
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - After
a one-year lapse brought on by the
1984 avian influenza quarantine,
live poultry shows are back in full
swing this summer at many county
fairs. And a fairly large turnout of
4-H and FFA exhibitors is expected
during the Maryland State Fair,
which gets underway at Timonium
on Aug. 24.
So now is the time to check on
health requirements for exhibition
poultry, notes Charles J. Wabeck,
an Extension poultry specialist at
the University of Maryland and
assistant superintendent for the
state fair 4-H and FFA poultry
show.
Taking immediate steps to in
sure compliance with the state
Department of Agriculture
regulations will help to avoid
unpleasant hassles later and
possible barring of your poultry
from competition. Dr. Wabeck
Busy Acre Farms was busy
Keith Loy offered the sale’s top bid of $5OO for Dave
Holloway’s champion Ouroc Boar.
the Pennsylvania Test Station in
1984.
Charles and Mark Hall of Julian
exhibited the champion and
reserve champion open Yorkshire
gilts.
The reserve champion Yorkshire
boar was exhibited by Rehman’s
Other sale prices and buyers are
as follows:
Champion York Bred Gilt, Donald Aurand, Lewistown, $3lO.
Reserve Champion York Bred Gilt, Dan Heilman, Ford City, $350.
Champion Duroc Bred Gilt, Keith Loy, Pine Grove, $320.
Champion York Open Gilt, Donald Aurand, $l9O.
Reserve Champion York Open Gilt, Donald Aurand, $l6O.
Champion Duroc Open Gilt, Robin Wareham, Everett, $250.
Reserve Champion York Boar, Peter Michisk, Flemington, NJ, $320,
Reserve Champion Duroc Boar, Wilmer Stoltzfus, Elverson, $350.
Littermate Pair York, Wilson Yorkshires, New Freedom, $135 each.
York Bred Gilts
York Open Gilts
York Boars
noted.
The important thing is to have
proof that your entry is certified as
coming from a pullomm-typhoid
clean flock, or that your birds have
had a negative pullorum-typhoid
test within 90 days of being moved
to the show site.
This regulation has been in effect
in Maryland since late 1977, and it
has been a requirement at the
Maryland State Fair since 1978.
But many 4-H and FFA exhibitors
apparentlya re still not aware of
the regulation.
The poultry health requirements
apply to both chickens and
turkeys, Dr. Wabeck reports.
Ducks and other waterfowl may be
exempted if it can be shown that
they are the only species of fowl on
the exhibitor’s premises. Other
wise, they also must meet the
pullorum-typhoid health testing
requirements.'
at York/Duroc Show
Yorkshires of Stewartstown.
The evening sale of breeding
stock exhibited was highlighted by
the sale of the champion Duroc
boar for $5OO to Keith Loy of Pine
Grove. Loy also purchased the
champion York boar for $4lO, the
second high price.
Sale Averages
$3lB Duroc Bred Gilts $3OO
$167 Duroc Open Gilts $2lO
$330 Duroc Boars $365
Sr Group
1 Calvin Lazarus & Sons 2 Calvin Lazarus A
Sons 3 Calvin Lazarus A Sons
Jr Group
1 Leon Arnold 2 Mark Hall 3 Leon Arnold
Open Gilts
1 Mark Hall 2 Charles Hall 3 Leon Arnold
1 Rehman Yorkshires 2 1 eon Arnold 3
Charles Hall
1 Calvin Lazarus & Sons 2 Rehman Yorkshires
3 Leon Arnold
Ourocs
Bred Gilts
1 2 A 3 Calvin Lazarus & Sons
Open Gilts
1 Dave Holloway 2 Calvin Lazarus 3 Calvin
Lazarus
Littermate Pairs
Calvin Lazarus A Sons
1 Dave Holloway 2 Larry Arnold 3 Roger
Banker!
1 Calvin Lazarus & Sons 2 Leon Arnold 3
on urges caution
To qualify, your birds for
pullorum-typhoid clean status,
contact your county Extension
agricultural agent. If 4-H or FFA
exhibition birds come from a flock
that has been tested within the past
12 months, the Extension agent can
provide written evidence that the
birds come from a pullorum
typhoid clean flock. This letter
must accompany the birds to the
show site.
Broilers or meat birds from
commercial flocks may be ac
companied by a similar written
statement from the flock super
visor.
If your exhibition birds don’t
come from a certified pullorum
typhoid clean flock, your Ex
tension'agent or a state Depart
ment of Agriculture animal health
representative can furnish a list of
approved testers. For a small fee,
one of these testers will come out to
Show Results
Yorkshires
Bred Gilts
Littermate Pairs
Boars
Boars
Barrow Show
Calvin Lazarus and Sons consigned the champion York
bred gilt, an August pig carrying an August litter.
The champion Duroc bred gilt, also a Lazarus consignment,
went to Keith Loy for $320.
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Keith Loy also bought the champion Yorkshore boar,
another Lazarus champion.
Calvin Lazarus & Sons
live Animat Evaluation Contest s , Dlvlslon
1 Jennifer Arnold 2 "shelby Heagy 3 Sherr, 1 Larry Arnold ? Tom Arnold 3 Steve Wilson
with poultry exhibits
your premises and conduct the
necessary testing. The procedure
is fairly simple.
With chickens, a plate test
analysis is conducted which can
give immediate results. This in
volves drawing a drop of blood
from each bird and testing it for
antibodies on a plexiglass grid
plate.
In case of doubt, a large sample
of blood is drawn from under the
bird’s wing, placed in a tube, and
sent to one of the state Department
of Agriculture animal health
laboratories for more complete
testing. This latter procedure is
always followed for turkeys.
Why all the fuss over pullorum
typhoid?
Dr. Wabeck explained that it is a
disease caused by salmonella
organisms. The disease can be
passed from parent to offspring
through the egg, and it results in
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Lazarus
high mortality of young chicks.
Adult chickens may become
carriers of the disease by contact
with fecal material from infected
birds.
About 45 years ago, pullorum
typhoid - also known as white
diarrhea affected a high per
centage of U.S. flocks. Today, it
has been virtually eliminated; and
poultry health authorities want to
make sure that the situation stays
that way.
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