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Course to cover swine education
By Barney Haney
Staff
Writer
Today the Purdue animal science department will
offer a statewide certificate swine education course.
The swine education course will be viewed at the
Stewart Center's Distant Education Room, G52, as well as via closed-circuit
TV at Purdue Cooperative Extension Services offices in 16 counties across
Indiana. The course will focus on farrowing house management topics
including physiology of parturition, dystcoia, sow and piglet behavior,
and maintaining the right environment for sows and piglets.
"The course is to provide updates to existing farrowing
house managers on the latest ventilation techniques, heating for piglets
and health management," said Brian Richert, an associate professor of
animal sciences who is also the course instructor.
Part one of the three-part course begins today
from 3 to 4:30 p.m. There is a registration fee of $90 per person and
$60 for additional participants from the same farm. Walk-ins will be
accepted and the registration fees are tax deductible. The two following
sessions will be held on Nov. 12 from 3:15 to 5:15 p.m. and Nov. 20
from 3 to 5 p.m.
Producers attending the event will receive materials
they can hang up at their establishments to help aid with the training
of new personnel who might not be as familiar with the process of raising
the animals.
The Purdue Extension county offices offering the
course include Clinton, Dubois, Jefferson, Warrick, Whitley, Vigo, Decatur,
Hendricks, Knox, Wayne, Tippecanoe, Delaware, Jasper, Marshall, Wells
and Tipton.
Tracie Egger, animal science distant learning coordinator,
said the flexibility, times and locations of the program will be of
great advantage to the producers.
But what if the producers have questions concerning
the material they are viewing?
"Attendees will have capabilities to contact the
studio during the showing through faxes, e-mails and phone calls," said
Egger.
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