HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-07-12, Page 4Seaforth man is 100F director
WARDEN E, HANEY
SO, of Seaforth has been ap-
pointed Regional Director of Area
No. 3 of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. Mr. Haney, a
member of Fidelity Lodge No, 55
of Seaforth since 1953, received
his appointment from Grand
Master, Harry Noels of Forest, at
the Grand Lodge sessions in
Toronto during June. As. Regional
Director his duties include being
chairman of the expansion and
development program for his area
and providing educational
meetings or conferences during
his term of office,
Area No. 3
covers 8 Odd Fellow Lodges in
Huron District No. 8,
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BRUSSELS
keep busy at."
Neither would she want to live
in a city or a town. She's living in
the same house she was raised in
as the youngest child of twelve
born 'there,
She's a bit of world traveller
having been to California, Africa,
Amsterdam, Sweden and a few
other places but right now, she's
happy to be home looking after
her 30,000 chickens..
VACATION-TIME?
Mrs Lyle Gordon checks chicks
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Skin Diver Masks
Snorkels
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THE BRUSSELS POST, JULY 12, 1978
Former teacher now
raises broilers
BY Debbie Ranney
Mrs. Lyle Gordon of Cranbrook
is a woman• who can't sit still but
she's not the kind of woman who
enjoys playing bridge or taking up
hobbies such as knitting and
crocheting.
Mrs. Gordon is an active
businesswoman and she has
30,000 broiler bens to prove it.
A retired schoolteacher who
taught at No. 11 Elma until 1967
she got into the poultry business
with her late husband about 1950
after starting with a few laying
hens, they sold out and took a trip
to California and; upon their
return entered the broiler
business.
A four storey green barn made
up of different sections and
different ages of birds currently
stores the 30,000 hens.
The process of raising the
broilers goes from buying the
day old chicks from a hatchery,
using propane heaters, and
feeding the chicks on feed trays
and water bottles. In two weeks
they're put on automatic feeders
and water.
Three Feeds
There are three feeds--the
starter feed which is small
crumbles for about two weeks,
grower feed which is fed to them
until about two weeks before
they're going out and then
finisher feed till they get out.
Mrs. Gordon likes it when the
birds get on finisher feed because
it's the .chepest and as she says,
"Dollars count when you're
contracting for feed."
The birds go to the processor
after about seven weeks and
when they weigh about 3.7
pounds. Mrs. Gordon's current
processor is Schneiders who isn't
allowed to take crates into the
barn for fear of transferring a
disease froint one place to
another.
The birds are handed out
through the windows in the barns
and on a big night Schneiders will
take out about 10,000 or 12,000
birds.
Right now, Mrs. Gordon has a
hired man, his wife and their
three children to help her with her
business while she looks afterlthe
bookkeeping.
With a quota of 30,000
chickens controlled by the broiler
board, she thinks the broiler
business is a good business to be
in.
The biggest problem facing the
broiler business is to control and
eliminate disease. When the
birds go out, the pens and
everything are washed under
pressure, the barn is swept down
and sprayed with insecticide,
fiunagated and closed for seven
days, Mrs. Gordon puts in four
flocks a year—that's the allowable
amount.
Clean Water
Clean Water and fresh air are
the most important things in the
raising of broiler hens, even more
important than feed, Mts. Gordon
says.
Of the broiler business, she
says, "It keeps me alert. I'm net
just sitting downi twiddling my
thumbS. It gives me something to
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