UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.)-The PA Department of Agri
culture’s Meat Animal Evalua
tion Center is accepting applica
tions for PA’s Performance Test
ing programs for Rams and
Boars.
There are a few pens still
available for the Boar Testing
Program. The nomination period
continues for a couple more
weeks for the Ram Performance
Testing program. The Center
will accept both fall born ram
lambs bom between September
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Nutritionists, Vets, Dairy Fanners and all other Agri-Business people
are invited to attend.
Applications Needed for PA’s Performance Testing
1, 1999 and December 31,1999,
and spring bom ram lambs bom
in January and February of
2000.
The rams nominated will be
delivered April 11, 2000. They
will then be given a 7-day
adjustment period. April 18,
2000, the rams will be weighed
on test. The rams will be
weighed every 14 days and
progress reports will be sent out
to owners and requesting, inter
ested parties. The 84 day test
will conclude July 11th and the
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rams will have their average
daily gain, lifetime weight per
day of age and respective ratios
calculated.
The rams will be shorn, scan
ned ultrasonically to determine
fat-thickness and loin-eye area
and undergo breed character
and structural evaluations. The
rams will have a breeding
soundness exam which will in
clude a comprehensive semen
evaluation on the fall-born
rams.
After all of the objective eval-
Mean give
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uations, approximately 75% of
the rams are selected to be
offered in PA’s Performance
Tested Ram Scale. This year is
Pennsylvania’s 22nd Annual
Performance Tested Ram Sale is
scheduled for Saturday, August
5, 2000. The ram sale will be
held in conjunction with an invi
tational ewe sale and the PA
Sheep Producers Field Day at
P.S.U.’s Ag Arena.
PA’s 25th Performance tested
Boar Sale is slated for Wednes
day evening, August 16, 2000.
This is scheduled to coincide
with Penn State’s Ag Progress
Days.
A pen of three boars, from one
sire and from one or two litters
are delivered weighing between
40 lbs. and 65 lbs. The pigs are
given a 7-14 day adjustment
Professional
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able to view horses offered for
sale and stallions available for
breeding. One farm will even
invite visitors to line dance with
their Paint stallion.
Breeds of horses range from
popular thoroughbreds, paints,
and quarter horses to the more
unusual American Miniature
horses, Clydesdales, Percherons,
and European warmbloods.
A number of stables will give
visitors the opportunity to
“throw a leg over” a horse or
pony. Mile View Farm in Bucks
County, Lauxmont Farm in
York County, and Heron Mead
Farm in Berks County will offer
pony rides for kids both days.
Foxfield Farm in Reinholds,
Lancaster County, will have free
pony rides and free introductory
mini riding lessons, both avail
able on a first-come, first-served
basis. Bar Kay Stables in Man
heim will offer 15-minute mini
riding lessons, with reservations
taken in advance, for $lO.
Windy Ridge Acres in Newport,
Perry County, will offer half
hour trail rides for $lO and $2
pony rides.
With more than 174,000
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4, 2000-A33
period, then weighed on test.
While on test, the boars are
weighed every 14 days until the
pen’s average weight is 240 lbs.
The pen’s feed efficiency will be
calculated and the boars will be
scanned ultrasonically to deter
mine fat thickness and loin-eye
area. The boars must meet min
imum requirements for struc
tural correctness and soundness
of movement, in addition to
breeding soundness.
For more information on PA’s
Performance testing programs
or to nominate rams or boars,
please contact, Glenn Eberly,
Director, Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture’s Meat
Animal Evaluation Center, 651
Fox Hollow Rd., State College,
PA 16803, phone 814-238-2527
or 814-865-5857.
Horse Farms
horses, Pennsylvania ranks tilth
in the nation in generation of
income from the horse industry,
and Pennsylvanians spend
nearly two-thirds of a billion
dollars a year on their horses.
Most of that industry is
clustered in the southeastern
quadrant of the state, where the
open house is centered.
Complete information on the
farms, including maps and di
rections, will be featured in the
March/April issue of Pennsylva
nia Equestrian, a bimonthly
newspaper for and about Penn
sylvania’s horse industry, and
on the world wide web at
www.horseshow.com.
The Open House is free. For
more information, call (717)
898-5874.
The following stables are
among those who will partici
pate in the 2000 Horse Farms
Open House.
• Beau Chevaux, 90 Eagle
Rd., Newton, PA 18940. (215)
860-3525 or (215) 639-9119.
Cutting horses, hunter/jumpers,
Quarter horses. Boarding, les
sons.
• Dancing Star Equestrian Center, across
the street from 1261 Slotter Rd., Bedminster
/Perkasie, PA 18944. (215) 795-0264. Dres
sage, warmbloods.
• Horses LTD., 374 Worthington Mill Rd.,
Richboro, PA 18954. (215) 968-8841. Hunter
/jumpers, lessons, training, sales.
• Mile View Farm, 1355 Ferry Rd., Doyles
town, PA 18901. (215) 489-0115. Dressage,
hunter/jumpers, driving, lessons, training,
boarding.
• My Dream Farm, 1805 Allentown Rd.,
Quakertown, PA 18951. (215) 529-7384.
www.mydreamfarm.com. American Minia
ture Horses, breeding, sales.
Reading/Northern
Lancaster County Area
• Foxfield Farm, 230 Holtzman Rd., Rein
holds, PA 17569. (717) 484-2250. Thorough
breds, warmbloods, dressage, eventing,
hunter/jumper. Lessons, training, boarding.
• Heron Mead Farm, 4903 Penn Ave., Sink
ing Spring, PA 19608. (610) 678-6876. Thor
oughbreds, dressage and eventing. Lessons,
training, boarding.
Northwest Lancaster/
Lebanon/Dauphin/Perry Area
• Bar Kay Stables, RD 3 Box 360, Lawn
Rd., Manheim, PA 17545. (717) 665-2009.
Lessons, trail riding lessons, boarding.
• Double D Stables, 1265 Mapledale Rd.,
Elizabethtown, PA 17022. (717) 367-2053.
www.doubledstables.com. American Paint
Horses, breeding, sales.
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Bucks County