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26 THE RURAL VOICE
products like whey are included,
Gadd said. As well, with less stress
in the animals, the meat is more
tender.
Three producers brought their
personal experiences with liquid
feeding to the assembled producers
and industry representatives.
John Kolkman said he likes the
flexibility liquid feeding gives him
on his Monkton-area farrow -to -finish
operation. He can switch from dry
corn to high -moisture corn in his
system.
To make the switch to liquid
feeding, however, you must be
comfortable with computers, he said.
"A small data -entry mistake can be
difficult to find."
Kolkman has been feeding
byproducts and says the disadvantage
is there is additional labour. He has
tested his manure, however, and
found a reduction of phosphorus of
up to 40 per cent.
Leroy Van Ryswyck of Embro
was the newest liquid -feeder
on the panel, having just
started two months ago. He said his
barn was 20 years old and required
renovations so he decided to make
the switch. He picked up 200 pig
places by using an open concept with
450 pigs to a pen and eliminating
pens and alleyways. There are ad-lib
feeders around the perimeter of the
pens.
Van Ryswyck uses a British
system to control quantities and
rations.
Gilbert Vanden Heuvel of
Goderich is one of the pioneers of
liquid feeding having adopted the
system 16 years ago.
"We wanted to optimize high -
moisture corn and we wanted to use
byproducts," he told the audience.
"We wanted to help our employees
use their heads rather than their
backs."
Vanden Heuvel said he's also able
to get very accurate data by using the
computerized feeding system with
his 1700 -sow, farrow -to -finish
, operation.
All three producers showed
photos and gave technical
information about their storage,
mixing and pipeline operations.
Martin Clunies spoke on by-
products and their use in liquid