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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1981
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3.1 mile fun run
starts Saturday
By NANCY WEATHERLEY
Battalion Staff
Students and faculty mem
bers will be off and running
Saturday in the annual Intramu
ral Funrun, a 3.1 mile trek start
ing on Beef Cattle Road near
the Texas A&M Veterinary
Medicine Complex.
Called the Cross-Country
Race in the past, the funrun is a
special event sponsored by the
Intramural Office. However, it
will not count toward dormitory
points in campus-wide intramu
ral competition.
All students are eligible to
enter, as well as faculty and staff
members. Intramural t-shirts
will be awarded to the fastest
men and women students, fas
test faculty/staff members and
fastest spouses.
Runners may also enter a
team competition for men,
women and combined, co-
recreational groups.
Tom Weis, assistant director
of intramurals, said the teams
can have three — but no more
than five — people per team.
The co-rec team will be com
posed of three men and three
women. The winning team will
be decided by the fastest com
bination of times of its mem
bers.
The Intramural Office will be
accepting entries all week, up
until the time of the race. The
cost is $1. Students need their
IDs to register and faculty/staff
members should bring their re
creation IDs. Weis said about
60 people have registered so far;
last year about 100 runners par
ticipated.
If it rains on Saturday, Weis
said, they will still try to have
the race. “Only severe weather
will cause the event to be can
celled,” he said. If the race is
cancelled, it will he re
scheduled.
Eggs no sweat
for cooled hens,
says A&M prof
Keeping a cool head in times of
stress is as important to chickens
as to quarterbacks, bomber pilots
and presidents, particularly since
chickens don’t sweat.
Dr. Richard Cain, a Texas
A&M poultry scientist, has found
that egg production can be in
creased by cooling only the heads
of hens, so he developed a money
saving system that cools only the
tops of chicken cages.
“By cooling laying houses, pro
ducers can increase egg produc
tion 10 to 15 percent, depending
on the age of the chicken,” said
Cain. “But we have found that if
you just cool their heads you can
increase egg production and save
energy.”
Heat stress during the summer
can cause an 8 to 15 percent drop
in production in Southern states,
resulting in an estimated $20 mil
lion loss to poultry producers each
year. Cain explained that while
humans reduce body heat through
perspiration, chickens, like dogs,
can only pant.
“They don’t have sweat glands,”
he said, “and per body weight,
they loose as much moisture
through their mouth as a man does
through sweat glands.”
Today, farmers are looking for
ways to keep their animals heal
thy, content and highly produc
tive, Cain said.
“Animal welfare is important to
producers because stress reduces
reproduction, resistance to dis
ease, growth rates and life spans,”
he said. “Keeping animals content
translates into lower prices at
grocery stores.”
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