‘A Bull Named Sue’ Sells
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
WELLSVILLE (York Co.)
JM Sue, a 30-month-old Long
horn bull bred and raised in York
County, recently sold for $30,000.
JM Sue claims the longest horns in the country for a
bull his age.
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Muir of JM Longhorns, Glen
Rock. Pequignot had purchased
it as a 6-month-old calf.
Pequignot said the bull unoffi
cially sports the longest horns of
any bull in the country, measur
ing 65 inches almost five and a
half feet from tip to tip.
Horn length is a highly desired
trait among Longhorn breeders,
according to Pequignot.
“That’s the name of the game
in the Longhorn business,” he
said.
Pequignot keeps about 25
Longhorn cattle on his 50-acre
farm. He has been raising this old
breed for seven years.
Pequignot, a builder, first got
interested in the cattle while
building a house next to a farm
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Lancaster Saturday, October 26,' 2003-A36
I Prevention Is Best Cure
For Dies In Poultry Houses
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.)
Fly control is becoming more cru
cial on commercial poultry opera
tions, in part because people are
moving ever closer to farms.
Greg Martin, Penn State poultry
agent, delivered that message and a
number of pest-control pointers at
a recent Poultry Management and
Health Seminar at Kreider’s Res
taurant, Manheim.
“The ‘city’ is moving our way,”
Martin said. “Neighbors may have
a different tolerance level for flies,
odor, and dust than you do.”
Martin outlined integrated pest
management (IPM) methods for a
variety of pests, including beetles, mosquitos, mites, lice, rodents,
birds, cats, and people.
But the main focus of his presentation was on how to master the
pesky, prolific housefly.
Martin said that good IPM practices can be por
trayed by a pyramid, similar to the USDA food
pyramid.
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Greg Martin points out
the importance of pest
scouting in poultry houses.
Prevention practices are at the base of the IPM
pyramid, representing the first and most impor
tant steps to take in controlling pests.
Basic preventative steps include good sanitation
measures and environmental controls. These are
much less costly and labor-intensive than mea
sures to control flies after they’ve become a big
problem, Martin pointed out.
“Water is the number one key element in fly
control,” Martin said.
For that reason, poultry managers need to re
strict water (and feed) spillage as much as possi
ble, rotate waterers so that spill areas can dry out,
and maintain a good ventilation system.
Scouting for flies is important, according to
Martin. There are a number of tools that can be
used for monitoring populations, including jug
traps, walking sticky tape, and speck cards.
“Any repeatable method works,” Martin said.
He mentioned one producer who uses masking
tape successfully for checking fly numbers.
As pest populations grow, it may become neces
sary to move up the IPM pyramid and start using
methods that better match the level of infestation.
These include physical and mechanical methods
(such as traps, lures, and fly ‘zappers’) and biolog
ical controls (such as parasitic wasps).
At the top of the IPM pyramid are chemical
controls, including conventional pesticides.
Not only are these materials more costly, there
is also increasing evidence of pests becoming resis
tant to some of them, Martin noted.
“Chemicals are really the last ditch effort,” he
said.
One new practice being tested by Penn State for
pest control is in-house composting of manure
piles in the pits underneath layer hen floors.
Carbon sources such as shredded newspaper are
added to the manure, facilitating the composting
process and generating heat. Temperatures of
more than 100 degrees Farenheit might kill fly lar
vae, according to Martin.
Composting also reduces mouse numbers by
creating an environment that is too hot for the
little rodents to survive in the manure piles.
Forced air drying of poultry manure is another
option for fly control. When manure moisture lev
els are less than SO percent, flies are unable to eat,
Martin said.
IPM is newer to the poultry industry than it is
in some other areas of agriculture.
“A lot of the things I’ve talked hbout the vege
table people have been doing for years and years,”
Martin said.
For more information about IPM, check the
Penn State Website at http://paipm.cas.psu.edu.
About 20 people from the poultry industry at
tended the meeting. Paul Patterson and Michael
Hulet, poultry science professors at Penn State,
were also on hand for the seminar.
Penn State extension organizes four such meet
ings per year on pertinent poultry topics.
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