The Rural Voice, 1986-06, Page 21FARM EQUIPMENT
SALES SERVICE
& REPAIR
• Eastern Farm Equipment
• Turnco
• Central Farm Supply
• Repairs to all farm equip.
• Armstrong seeds
CUMMING EQUIPMENT
PAISLEY 519.353.5101
PERFORMANCE
TESTED
QUALITY SWINE
Performance tested; gilts
and boars from a herd with
very good mothering ability.
QS F1 York x Landrace
gilts, open or bred,
available on a regular
basis.
Excellent boars
York. Landrace, Duroc,
Hampshire and Duroc x
Hamp crossbred.
1OpOWAY FARMS
••••L N RAGS
• t.AMMACE
Hulme I4 ar 1*ad .Seas.
Contact Wayne Fear at
MONOWAY FARMS
6 miles west of Brussels on Huron Rd. Nth
CaII Wayne anytime at 519.887.6477
If no answer,
call Mike at 519-887-6485
at noon or after 6 p.m.
days old. Now they are using 125
watt bulbs and a heat bulb shield
with an energy saving high/low
switch, which is kept on high for
10 days, low for 14 days, and off
from then until weaning. Because
of the lower temperature in the
room, they've placed a 250 -watt
bulb behind the sow t'or the first
day of farrowing so that the little
pigs don't get chilled when they are
born. Ypma estimates the energy
savings at $5.78 per litter.
The lids of the creep boxes open
easily to check the young pigs, and
the boxes are large enough to hold
10 piglets at four weeks of age. The
heat lamp shields can be removed
so the pigs don't break the bulbs
when they are older. Ypma
estimates that the total cost of each
creep box is about $50.
Ben Brown from the Sebringville
area designed a "farrowing fan"
to prevent piglets frm being crush-
ed at farrowing time or shortly
after. Brown noticed that at far-
rowing time, when a sow stood up
between births, the piglets would
move from the creep area to
underneath the sow seeking the
comfort of the flooring warmed by
the sow's body heat. When the sow
lay back down, the piglets would
be trapped beneath her. Under
Brown's system, when the sow
stands up she breaks the light beam
which starts the fan mounted in the
backdoor at floor level. The fan
directs a narrow stream of high
velocity air which does not spread
into the creeps. The stream of air
cools the piglets and they move
away from it and back to the
creeps so that when the sow lies
down again, there are no piglets in
the danger zone. The light beam is
re-established and the fan stops.
The components of the farrowing
fan are an infra red light detector,
a 4900 r.p.m. squirrel cage fan, a
relay box, and a reflector.
Frank Streek of Hay Bay Farms
Limited in Napanee designed a
method of distributing medicated
water to many locations thereby
saving the expense of several
medicators.
Streek describes the construction
as "relatively simple." It consists
of optional by-passes of the nor-
mal water flow by selecting three-
way valves. Each three-way valve
covers one room and water or
medicated water may be selected
by opening or closing the valves
concerned.
(cont. on page 20)
SEEDSTOCK
• Purebred & Crossbred
Boars & Gilts
Health Monitored by
Dr. Doug MacDougald
• Shorthorn Breeding Stock
available
Boar -Store Storekeeper
Gerry Campschroer
Days: 519-887-9206
Evenings: 519-523-4284
R.R. 5, Brussels, Ont.
NOG 1H0
TOP QUALI1Y
BRED GILTS
YORK X LANDRACE
Sound legs g
Excellent Mother Ability.
Open Gilts
READY FOR SERVICE
References Available
GUARANTEED BRED - LARGE SELECTION
LAURENCE
VANDEN HEUVEL
R.R. #2, Goderich
519-524-4350
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