The Rural Voice, 1983-04, Page 6"VIDEO"
a first in the swine industry!
ONTARIO ALL BREED SWINE
VIDEO SALE
Friday, APRIL 8, 1983
Coliseum, Stratford, Ontario
Sale Preview
11:30 a.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Sale Time 4:30 p.m.
(immediately following
Livestock Symposium)
BRED GILTS --OPEN GILTS --BOARS
Yorkshire - Landrace - Hampshire
Duroc - Spot
All animals have been R.O.P. home
tested & originate from herds which
have a satisfactory health status
under the terms of the Ontario
R.O.P. Program.
AUCTIONEER: Steve Liptay,
Bowmanville.
For further Information:
ONTARIO SWINE
BREEDERS' ASSOC.
1519) 655-2463
or 655-2018
Peebles
Farms
vipPP-,--mexx4mi
Yorkshire/ Hampshire
Hybrid Gilts
Purebred Yorkshire &
Hampshire Boars
R.O.P. Tested
DOUG PEEBLES
R.R. 2, Atwood
356-2230
After 6 p.m.
356-2369
An) time
PG. 4 THE RURAL VOICE, APRIL 1983
Managing a disease-free
pig herd
by Rhea Hamilton.
Raising and maintaining a disease
free purebred swine herd can be a very
tricky business, but Tony Vandendool
decided to accept the challenge three
years ago and hasn't regretted the
move.
Vandendool operates a 120 -sow oper-
ation four miles west of Seaforth on a
ten -acre parcel of land. Seven years ago
he bought the farm to get into the
weaner business and converted a layer
barn into a farrowing operation. After
four years of learning the business,
Vandendool, ready for a new challenge,
cleaned out his barn and brought in
purebred Landrace sows and boars to
set up his own business of raising
breeding stock.
The Vandendool herd now consists of
100 Landrace sows, eight Duroc and ten
crossbred sows. This month thirty sows
will have litters, filling the farrowing
barn to capacity.
Seven years ago when Vandenpool
first started, he spent twice as much
time in the barn, reporting to the vet
every time he saw any little thing wrong
with one of the sows or their litters.
The vet bill was astronomical. Since
then Vandendool has learned fast how
to identify any real problems and
remedy any simple situations himself.
Besides the farrowing barn housing
sixty sows and the young, there is a
finishing barn attached which was con-
structed two years ago. The older barn
has been converted to house the seven
boars and 60 dry sows.
Vandendool is very meticulous in his
care and maintenance program. Only
authorized vets and inspectors are al-
lowed into the barns. The Vandendool
herd is on the ROP herd health program
and classified 'Excellent'. Participants
in the program must maintain the herd
so that there are "no clinical or post-
mortem signs of mycoplasma pneu-
monia, mange, Tice, swine dysentry,
TGE, pseudo rabies, brucellosis, lepto-
spirosis, no significant clinical signs of
rhinitis" or any other persisting disease
or condition.
The top classification 'Superior' dif-
fers from 'Excellent' by the increased
number of heads and lungs of market
pigs that have to be submitted during
the 12 month assessment period. The