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26 THE RURAL VOICE
contributed to problems encountered
during the heavy snow of the winter
of 2000-2001. Snow packed around
the exhaust fans and eventually the
fan blades sheared off. Though the
fans apparently continued to run,
suddenly humidity and ammonia
smells grew in the barn. When the
problem was determined and
repaired, humidity dropped and air
quality increased again. "The
atmosphere in the barn is just great
this winter," Fleming said.
Air quality is one of the great
attributes of the barn, according to
Fleming. An odour panel of
Ridgetown students determined there
was Tess smell near the barn than
with a regular liquid manure facility.
The odour advantage also extends
to spreading time when the
straw/manure mixture is. much less
likely to draw the negative attention
of neighbours. The solid manure
spread on fields is also Tess likely to
contaminate water supplies, Fleming
said.
The straw/manure mixture did
not compost during the
September 2000 to August
2001 period in which it stayed in the
barn. Some areas of the straw were
drier than others. Fleming said the
situation may come because of the
use of open -fronts on some of the 34
pens in the centre -aisle barn
encouraged pigs to manure at one
end.of the pen. Great care has been.
taken to encourage pigs to manure in
one end of a pen in regular barns but
having pigs manure all over the pen
would likely be better with a two-
storey barn, he said.
The Ohio barns are operated as
all -in, all-out facilities and between
each batch of pigs operators go in
and move the composting material to
a different part of the storage area, a
process that evens out the moisture
and promotes better composting. The
Millers operate their barn as a
continuous flow operation which
means they don't touch the manure
storage for a year at a time which
doesn't mix the, moisture as much but
also saves labour.
About four per cent of the liquid
manure seeped through the straw and
was collected by the Millers and
pumped to a nearby liquid holding
tank. In future, however, this liquid
will be pumped back onto the straw