Milford chronicle., 1960-09-30
ESQ Broiler Men At
Regional Meeting
continued from page one)


The survey covered 81 growers
and involved 93O,642 birds. Other
results of the, study indicated that
narrow broiler houses and houses
with solid partitions also decreas-
ed condemnations.
DR.. Cover said that very high
number of birds on the pro-
cessing lines showed evidence
of intestinal coccidiosis. Although
this does not mean the bird is
condemned it does indicate the
seriousness of the coccidiOsis
problem because the disease GER
tainly causes poor feed conver-
sion by the bird and weakens it
for other diseases.
DR.. Harry Love, head of the de-
partment of agricultural econom-
les at Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute, gave presentation on the
basic economics of agricultural
marketing.
Mr.. Otis Esham, Willards, Nd,
reported on his recent visit to
broiler growing areas in Maine,
Georgia and Arkansas.
After a Delmarvalous chicken
dinner, research reports were CIV
en- by representative from the
University of Maryland, the Uni
versity of Delaware and V.P.I.
Agricultural engineer Howard
c. Hoyt, University of Delaware,
reported on his work on a new
processing method for whole, un-
extracted soybeans. II
Feeding trials with expanded,
whole soybeans, with 1000 broil-
ers, resulted in an average weight,
at eight weeks, of 3.05 pounds and
a feed conversion of 2.10 for the
500 birds on the expanded materi-
al. This compared to an identical
average of 3.05 pounds for the 500
birds on conversational feed but a
feed conversion of 2.15 showed up.
This means 05 pounds of feed per
pound of broiler produced was
saved with the expanded corn
soya mixture, Hoyt said.
Frank A. D'Armi, poultry re-
searcher at the University of Del
aware Substation Division at
Georgetown, reported on his study
of feeder space.
He said the study on the rela-
tionship of feeder space per 1000
birds showed that feed was more
efficiently used and, in general, it
was more economical to use 10
five-foot feeders per 1000 birds
rather than the 20 five-foot feeders
per 1000 birds now being recon-
mended.
The return. above feed and
grown, in the 10 feeders per 1000
bird pens, was 1882 per 1000
more than the return on birds
grown in the 20 feeder per 1000
pens, D'Arni said.
DR.. William G. KrausS, Univer-
sity of Delaware, discussed a re-
cent test of a new killed Newcastle
vaccine. He said the new killed
vaccine gave 81 per cent protec-
ton of the birds as compared to 20
per cent protection for the live
virus vaccine.
The low rate of protection with
the live vaccine was due to high
parental immunity, DR.. Krauss
said.
James Nicholson, extension poul-
tryman' with the University of
Maryland, reported on the advan-
tages and disadvantages of grow
ing male and female broilers sep
arately. He also discussed the re-
cent tests regarding the compari-
son of crossing the popular male
strains with various female strains.
DR.. A. T. Ringrose, V.P.I., dis
cussed the status of condemna-
tions of broilers in the Virginia
area.
A panel discussion on what mea-
sures should be taken to reduce
condemnations ended the meeting.
Service men. growers, research
men and poultry inspectors were
all represented on the panel