Forget Your Discomfort,
Keep Cow Comfort
Year Round
ROBERT GRAVES
Ag Engineering Extension
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) This, has been a snowy,
blowy, cold winter, with many
days below zero degrees.
But a dry, well-fed cow, out of
the wind, does not mind harsh
winters.
She does need a well-ventilated
bam, regardless of temperature or.
weather conditions. Given a
choice, cows still prefer cold and
dry to warm and damp.
A dry, fresh, well ventilated
frees tall bam at 10 degrees is
healthier than a poorly ventilated,
humid, smelly bam at 40 degrees.
I am concerned that too many -
dairy managers will forget all we
have learned about good
ventilation.
They will let a few cold days or
blowing snow keep them from
ventilating bams with curtains and
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They will forget that we have
many more hot, humid summer
days than cold, windy, below-zero
winter days.
But, the inconvenience of a few
winter days should not outweigh a
summer’s worth of cow comfort
We must build our bams for the
cows’ comfort year-round.
So, please, don’t punish your
cows because it was cold this wint
er! Continue to provides dry, well
ventilated frees tall bam all year.
Provide adequate ventilation open
ings, even on very cold days.
Use frostproof waterers, and run
alley scrapers continuously or trac
tor scrape regularly. Provide your
key employees and your cows with
a world class working environ
ment every day of the year.
Keep building and modifying
bams so that side and end walls can
be removed in the summer and
ensure adequate openings even
on cold winter days.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 7, 1994-A29
(Continued from Pogo A 1)
high herd for fat in 1993 with 43
cows, 16,898 milk, 593 protein,
and 790 Cat
Top cow for milk and protein in
1993 was given to Lindenhof
Mercury Ginger for 4:08, 27,783
milk; 1206 fat and 917 protein.
The top cow for butterfat in
1993 was Rutter Bros. Jaspers
Doric of the Rutter Bros. Farm.
4:08, 21,735 milk, 768 protein,
and 1367 fat
“All Pennsylvania Awards”
were presented to the following:
Junior Calf: Scott and Elsie
Wolff and Peb-L-Brook Farm,
Quanyville.
Intermediate Heifer Calf:
Elsie and Scott Wolff and Kevin
Stoltzfiis, Quanyville.
Senior Calf: Beth Anne Clark,
Bedford.
Summer Yearling: Paula D.
Guyer, Deny.
Junior Yearling: Amy Liggett,
Enon Valley.
Bill Mulhn, Owner
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ling: Amanda Hem
sarth, Millville.
Senior Yearling:
David Shupp,
Tunkhannock.
Junior 2 Year Old:
Matthew Morrow,
Tyrone.
Senior 2 Year Old:
Elsie Wolff and Bemata
Gable.
Junior 3 Year Old:
Justin McMurray,
Eighty-Four.
Senior 3 Year Old:
Beth Anne Clark,
Bedford.
Four Year Old:
Sniders Homestead,
New Enterprise.
Five Year Old &
Over: Snider Home
stead, New Enterprise.
Dry Cow, Four
Years & Under: Jan
Snider, New Enterprise.
Dry Cow, Five
Years & Over: Aaron
Gable, New Enterprise.
Best Bred & Owned
All-Pennsylvania:
Beth Anne Clark,
Bedford.
Charlene Shupp of
Tunkhannock was
selected as the 1994
Guernsey Queen.
An auction of hand
. crafted, mostly Guern
sey theme items, bene
fitted the Guernsey
Youth.
Two cows brought
more than $3OOO at the
sale which concluded
the convention.
Held at the Bedford
Fairgrounds 4-H build
ing, selling average was
$1415.
Two Guernseys
stood patiently while
the bidding climbed
beyond $3OOO.
Scott Bates of Wes
terville, Ohio, saw his
R-Way Perfect Laven
dar senior calf go for
$3lOO. It was purchased
by Troy Hill of Sandy
Lake.
Peb-L-Brook F. Lor
ie, owned by Scott and
Elsie Wolff of Pebble
brook Farm, Quarryvil
le, was purchased by
John DuPont of Lifeter
Farms of New Town
Square for $3200.