BUTLER (Butler Co.) Penn
sylvania Polled Herford Junior
Association members held its Pre
view Show here at the Butler
County Fairgrounds on Saturday,
May 23.
A totalof 29 head competed for
top honors in preparation to the
junior member’s trip to the Na
tional Show to be held in July at
Springfield, 111.
Zach Dye, Amity, with BVF Clarene's Z Boy, grand cham
pion bull at the 1998 Pennsylvania Polled Hereford Preview
Show.
Connie Shaw, Ohio, with her grand champion steer at the
Pennsylvania Polled Hereford Preview Show.
Cody and Dana Filges, Butler, with the grand champion
cow-calf pair at the 1998 Pennsylvania Junior Polled Here
ford Preview Show at the Butler Fairgrounds.
Junior Association Holds Preview Show
Jessica Dye of Amity, Wash
ington County, exhibited her April
1997 yearling heifer, Boyd Fas
cination 7087, to champion hon
ors in the owned show, while Matt
Cross of Kennerdell, Venango
County, showed his May 1997
heifer, HJF Bottomline BG, to re
serve honors. Emilie Miller of
Womelsdorf, Berks County, ex
hibited her March 1997 yearling
heifer, ECM Ric-Key 701, to top
honors in the brcd-and-owned di
vision. Jessica Dye’s November
1997 heifer calf, BVF Victoria
26G, was the reserve champion in
the bred-and-owned show.
In the showmanship competi
tion, Randall Dye of Amity was
champion showman in the Pee-
Wee division (age 7-9), Jessica
Dye was champion Junior Show
man (Age 10-14), and Connie
Shaw, Newcomerstown, Ohio,
was champion Senior Showman
(Age 15-21). Go-getter awards
were given to Emilie Miller,
Samuel Reimer of Butler, Butler
County, and Cody Biddle, of
Seneca, Venango County.
In other business, the Junior As
sociation elected officers for the
upcoming year. They include pre
sident, Matt Cross; vice president,
Luke Vogel, of Evans City, Butler
County; secretary, Emilie Miller;
and treasurer, Cody Filges, of But
ler, Butler County.
BULLS
Clast 1 Brad A Owned Bulla; 1.
Zachnah Dye, BVF Clarene’s Z Boy, grand
champion.
STEERS
Clast 2 (Calved Before 3/31/97): 1. Con
nie Shaw, grand champion, 2. Amanda Fra
zier, of Goergetown, Beaver County, reserve
champion, 3 Matt Cross
Class 3 (Calved Attar 4/1/97: 1 Emilie
Miller, 2 Cod/ Biddle.
COMING ARE YOU
PREPARED?
R. Michael Hulet
Department of Poultry
Science
Penn State University
Recently, weather icports
showed unseasonably warm tem
peratures m Arkansas and Texas,
triple digit weather? I havem't
heaid ol disastious ellccts on poul
try production in that area, but
certainly without adequate house
and bird management preparation,
mortality, moibidity, reduced gain
and mellicieney of performance
would have occurred In areas in
the South, the producers expect
the weather to turn warm to hot
and make plans to ameliorate the
effects.
If they dom't prepare, they suf
fer the consequences. As the old
saying goes Ilf you fail to plan,
you plan to fail!. The time to
prepare for avoiding the effects of
high ambient temperature is now.
The two strategies that are used to
diminish the effects of high tem
perature on poultry are mainte
nance of ventilation equipment
and reviewing what to do in when
high temperatures endanger your
poultry flock.
Many times we get distracted
and forget to prepare for the advent
of summer weather. It is usually
the early heat spell that causes the
greatest damage and loss of birds
due to heat stress than when birds
have been gradually acclimated to
higher temperatures in the middle
of the summer
Therefore, take the covers off
your tunnel fans, get your migra
tion fences out, reset the phases
on your computei controls or
think about what has to be done
as far as ventilation and fogging
and at what temperatures. If you
canft remember, find someone
who does know before you are in
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 27, 1998-C9
Emile Miller, Womelsdorf, with ECM Rlc-key 701, grand
champion bred and owned heifer at the Pennsylvania
Polled Hereford Preview Show.
COW-CALF PAIRS
Class 4: 1. Cody Filges, CL Grandeta,
3-5-94, with 3-24-98 bull calf, grand champ
ion; 2 Luke Vogel, DCF 25C Vaquenta 626,
3-7-96 with 3-1-98 heifer calf, reserve cham
pion.
HEIFERS
Class 5(9/1/97-12/31/97); 1 Jessica Dye.
reserve champion bred & owned, 2 Randall
Dye.
Class 6 (5/1/97-8/31/97): 1 Matt Cross,
reserve champion, 2. Luke Vogel.
Class 7 (4/11/97-4/31/97): 1 Benn Cross,
the middle of a crisis Also, re
mind your employees what needs
to be done in high heat and hu
miditv situations
The first equipment that comes
to mind in making sure you arc
prepared for summer weather is
youi tans Fans arc rated lor a
particular efficiency to work
within your house, but if thc\
have dirty blades, if the wire mesh
is coated with dust, it the shuttcis
aic stuck and dirty, and it the lan
belt is loose, then you arc loosing
precious air velocity, and volume
that should be used to ventilate
your birds
The next machinery that needs
attention is the fogging system
Have you taken the nozzles out
and -.oaked them in vinegar or
some solution to get them clean
and clear from particles that might
inhibit their ability to deliver the
right volume of water and in the
right droplet size to maximize
evaporative cooling? If not, now
is the time. The pump also needs
to be checked and water line rinsed
and sanitized.
Other strategies to remember
during high heat situations are to
remove the feed from the bird in
the heat of the day. The reason is
that the consumption of feed pro
duces heat during digestion and
adds to the heat stress of the birds.
One effective way to get this done
is to raise the feed line while there
is still feed in it early in the
morning.
Raising the feed line gives the
m
BUILD!
2 Scott Reimer
Clast 8 (4/li»7-4/10/97): 1. Jessica Dye,
grand champion, 2 Luke Vogel, 3 Samuel
Reimer
Clast 9 (3/9/97-3/31/97): 1. Emilie Miller,
champion bred & owned, 2 Connie Shaw, 3
Randall Dye
Class 10 (3/1/97-3/8/97): 1. Zach Dye. 2
Emilie Miller, 3 Charles Vogel
Class 11 (1/1/97-2/28/97); 1 Elizabeth
Dye, 2 Scott Reimer, 3 Samuel Reimer
Clast 12 (9/1/96-12/31/96); 1 Cody Bid
dle
birds added floor space and allows
all buds to cat all the way down
the Iceder line when the leed is re
lumed to the birds Otherwise,
the birds cause stress and carcass
damage as they crowd the feeders
when the auger fills the leed pans
On the other hand, water helps to
cool birds. We have found that
the water in the water lines rapidly
reach ambient temperatures. That
means, when the temperatuie
reaches ‘-'>s degrees m the house,
the temperature of ihc water m the
line is 95 degrees and inhibits
some consumption by the birds
Where ate the water lines usually
placed in poultiy houses' Neat
the idling, one ot the holler
niai es in the house Flushing ol
hot walei lines is thought oMis a
good strategy. Jl ‘
However, when the templVa
tuie reaches 95 degrees or highei,
birds domt drink much no matter
wbat the lempciatuie ol the watei -
Thcielore. refreshing water lines is
ol mote value toward the end ol
the day when the biids go back on
Iced Because ol the feed and wa
ter refusal by birds during very
high temperatures, the other
strategies of increasing airflow
over the birds, evaporative cooling
and leed removal during the heat
of the day become very important
management techniques
The story is told ol the em
ployee who listed m his |ob ap
plication that his greatest asset
was his ability to sleep when the
wind blows. When the strong
winds came, the employer went to
check out his farm and found all
in order because his employee had
been prepared and was fast asleep
in the barn. May,you be able to
sleep when the temperature gets
hot because your houses arc prop
erly prepared and your equipment
is properly maintained.
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