Farming, Saturday, May 14, 1994 Jackpot Show In York YORK (York Co.) Mark barrows * steers, and wethers, at the are guaranteed premiums, tram your calendars for Saturday, July Fairgrounds. $25 for first place to $5 for fifth. 30. Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Judge for the steer show is Brian That’s the date of the Keystone Livestock Association, the Jackpot Fitzgerald, West Grove, dick National Rib Cookoff and Music Show is open 10 y° uth *8“ B ‘ l9 Kuzemch ak, Pleasant Gap,' will Fest’s Jackpot Show, featuring the ( as of show with guaranteed Judge the wether show. Barrows supreme champion selection of Jue^P olB totalling $1,700. Ipcluded will be judged by Frank Feeser, UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) —Candy bars may help poul try farmers deal with a serious problem what to do with all their dead birds. Penn State poultry scientist Paid Patterson is researching environ mentally sound and cost-effective methods for dead bird and hatch ery waste disposal. Among the most promising is fermenting the waste and recycling its nutrients back in the the feed stream. This is where the candy bars come in. Patterson’s approach is to grind and mix the carcasses with a carbohydrate—in this case, candy bar waste from a confections com pany —and ferment the mixture in a sealed, anaerobic container. Early studies show that broilers fed a diet containing up to 30 per cent of these fermented by-pro ducts perform as well as those re ceiving com and soybean rations. “If this process were used to recy cle all the dead birds that are now buried or incinerated.” Patterson said, “it could reclaim more than $lOO million worth of nutrients a year.” Besides wasting valuable nutri ents, traditional disposal methods can cause environmental prob lems. “Burying dead birds can n Needed immediately: new housing for ■ Breeder Contracts ■ Broiler Contracts ■ Layer Contracts ■ Turkey Contracts 1 Pullet Contracts 2 - 44 xsoo’ TUNNEL VENTILATED BROILER HOUSES Featuring Ugi Available For Authorized Master Distributor Since 1982 Northeast Northeast Agri Systems, Inc. aFlyway Buslhess Park store hours Mon -Fri 730 to 4.30 139 A West Airport Road Sat. a 00 to Noon LltltZ, PA 17643 24 Hr 7 Day Repair Service Ptv(7l7) 569-2702 1-800-673-2580 ® Scientists Tackle Dead Bird Disposal contribute to groundwater contam ination,” said Patterson, assistant professor of poultry science in Penn State’s College-of Agricul tural Sciences. “Burning them is expensive and can cause odor problems. With concern for air and water quality rising, these prac tices are declining.” Poultry mortality rates from dis ease and other causes can reach S percent for broilers and up to 7 per cent for layers. Nationally, more than 360 million birds weighing a combined 470,000 tons die prema turely each year. Hatchery waste, including eggshells, unhatched eggs and dead birds, presents a similar disposal problem. Pennsylvania has one of the largest poultry industries in the country. With more than 140 mil lion chickens and turkeys, the state’s producers must dispose of millions of dead birds annually “Rendering, or recycling car casses by cooking, has been used for years,” Patterson said. “But tra ditional rendering presents prob lems. Transportation costs can be high, especially for farmers locat ed outside or near the edge of a ren dering company’s hauling radius. “The farmer must pay to refrig erate the carcasses between pick ** System 2000 Controls 1 -800-673-2580 For information on new contracts being offered by local feed and livestock companies ups,” he said. “And because dead birds often have viruses or bacter ia, transporting them could spread diseases to other farms.” Using the fermenting process, farmers could store this material at room temperature without fear of spoilage until enough has accumu lated to make transporting it to a rendering facility economical. “The acidic conditions also pre serve nutrients and kill most dis ease pathogens,” said Patterson. Composting is another dead bird disposal option that is growing in popularity. “Composting is not a new technology, but it’s a proven one,” said John Schwartz; director of Penn State Cooperative Exten sion in Lancaster County. 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