Carlisle Livestock
Carlisle, Pa.
Tuesday, Dec. 30,1986
Report Supplied by Auction
CATTLE: Steers: Medium-Good
51.25- Medium Holsteins
41.5046.50. Heifers: Choice 52.00-
54.00; Holsteins 41.00 & Down.
Cows: Large Run - Steady Prices.
High Yield None Offered; Good
36.25- Medium 33.50-36.00;
Big Middle 31.00-36.75; Shelly 30.00
& Down. FAT Bulls: Medium-Good
45.7547.00; Utility 37.2540.50.
FEEDER CATTLE: Steers (600-
850 lb) Medium 43.0047.00. Heifers
(all weights) Medium 44.5048.00.
Bulls (all weights) Medium-Good
37.5047.50.
VEAL CALVES: Good Run!
Steady Prices. Choice 80.00-90.00;
Good 65.00-79.00; Medium 45.00-
63.00; Few Light/Weak 44.00 &
Down; Farm Bulls 80.00-107.00.
HOGS: Barrows & Gilts 4.00-5.00
lower than week. (US No. 1-3) 210-
250 lbs. 47.0048.85; Over 280 lb.
45.3546.00; 2&4’s (aU weights)
37 0046.50.
SOWS: 2.00-5.00 lower. Over 450
lbs. 37.2540.75; under 450 36.75-
42.50; Boars 44.00.
FEEDER PIGS: (by the hd.)
(25-35 lbs. 22.0048.00); (4045 lbs.
48.0049.00).
SHEEP: Lambs Steady. Good
(Heavy) 53.00-64.00; Medium 52.00
&Down.
EWES: Mostly 25.00-37.00.
Goats- (Lg) 44.00-50.00 (hd);
Sm./Med. 25.0040.00 (hd).
Next State Graded Pig Sale will
be on Friday, Jan. 9th, 1:30 p.m.
Like many political refugees
who have immigrated to the
United States in the past 15 years,
Kim Chi, a former Vietnamese
refugee has adapted remarkably
well.
She owns and operates the
Campus Barbershop near the
University of Maryland in College
Park, and she has three American
male barbers working for her in a
four-chair shop. In old-fashioned
barbershop tradition, she can
discuss local politics and sports
with her predominantly male
clientele.
But Kim Chi misses some of the
traditions and foods from her
native land. One of these is the
opportunity to eat fresh-dressed
chicken which has been purchased
at a live poultry market like those
that she remembers from earlier
years.
She can’t stand to kill a chicken
herself, but she would readily eat a
fresh-dressed chicken that
someone else has killed.
Multiply Kim Chi’s tastes by
three million Southeast Asians and
14 million Hispanics concentrated
in California, Texas, Florida and
the New York City area, and you’ll
SLAUGHTER BULLS: Yield
Grade 1-2 1100-1500 lb. 42.0047.60;
1500-2000 lb. 46.60-50.75.
Resurgence Of Five Chicken Marketing
Worries Commercial Poultry Industry
understand why live chicken sales
are making a comeback.
Even Fidel Castro, premier of
Cuba, insisted on his chef bringing
live chickens into a New York City
hotel when he headed a delegation
to the United Nations in 1965.
“It’s likea throwback to the
1920’5” says Edward T. Mallinson,
an Extension poultry veterinarian
at the University of Maryland. Dr.
Mallinson is an associate professor
at the College Park campus of the
Virginia-Maryland Regional
College of Veterinary Medicine.
Bringing back the 1920 s on the
poultry marketing scene may
instill a certain amount of
nostalgia. But it could wreak
economic havoc on today’s poultry
production scene, where com
mercial broiler flocks tend to be
concentrated in specialized areas
like southeastern Pennsylvania,
the Delmarva peninsula and the
Shenandoah valley of Virginia.
The main concern, says
Mallinson, is that bringing live
poultry to central markets tends to
multiply by fantastic proportions
the likelihood that avian influenza
and other highly contagious
diseases will be spread from farm
to farm and from one type of fowl
to another.
Ducks are fairly resistant to
such diseases as avian influenza;
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but they are notorious for
spreading the bird-lethal virus to
chickens and turkeys, which are
much more susceptible, Mallinson
explained.
Poultry producers in
southeastern Pennsylvania and the
Delmarva area ship most of their
broilers to the New York City area.
So that is the focal point for con
cem these days. Trade
organizations like the Delmarva
Poultry Industry, Inc., are
maintaining constant surveillance
on live poultry markets in and
around New York City.
Trucks, chicken crates and
people all contribute to the poultry
disease problem, Mallinson noted.
Since the movement back
toward the 1920 s in live poultry
marketing seems likely to continue
for awhile, he reminds present-day
industry people of a successful
poultry health campaign of that
era which helped to eliminate what
was then called “fowl plague.” The
disease was similar to what we call
avian influenza today, he ex
plained.
That educational campaign of an
earlier era was led by one of
Mallinson’s former professors,
Evan L. Stubbs, known by many as
the “father of poultry pathology.”
Now in his 90’s, Dr.Stubbs is a
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University of Pennsylvania’s
school of veterinary medicine.
At a recent regional meeting on
practical bio-security procedures
for poultry, Mallinson emphasized
that:
“To repeat the success of the
1920 s campaign requires that each
segment of the total poultry in
dustry must become part of an
unbroken chain of upgraded
hygiene and sanitation. This chain
must include producers, catching
crews and egg handlers, truckers
and other people who assemble
live poultry for shipment to con
centration points in the marketing
system. It also should include
traders and dealers, auction
managers and poultry processors.
“Any weak link jeopardizes the
strength and safety of the entire
chain. We either pull together for a
healthy and prosperous industry,
or we lose it,” Malllnson declared.
Finally, the Maryland Extension
specialist offers this comment for
consumers:
“While a resurgence of live
poultry marketing has serious
disease implications for all poultry
producers, these diseases are not
transmissable to humans through
poultry products.”
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