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Show ms fey w St Heated Barns Cut Infant Pig Deaths Keeps Piglets Warm; Sqw Can't Crush Them I Infant mortality among young i piglets is one of the biggest head-j head-j aches for the hog raiser. The dol-I dol-I lar value of little pigs lost each year due to their being frozen to I death or crushed under the weight of the sow while seeking warmth from her body if computable would reach an astonishing high figure. An Indiana manufacturer of warm air heating equipment, working work-ing in cooperation with the agricultural agri-cultural engineering departments of two large midwestern universi- -AM Ledge over ducts embedded In concrete floor provides pro-. pro-. tective barrier under which piglets can keep warm yet not be crushed by sow. ties has developed two farrowing barn heating systems which are economical to install and safe to operate. Both systems utilize an oil fired forced warm air furnace the same type used in residential winter air conditioning systems. Because both of the systems consist con-sist of embedding warm air ducts in the concrete slab floors they are generally to be considered for use in the construction of a new farrowing far-rowing barn, although the systems can be installed in existing structures struc-tures if the farmer is willing to tear out the existing floor and install in-stall a new one. Where the farmer desires to use the system to heat the entire barn, a warm air perimeter-type system has been designed. |