Show Extension Service Recommends Heavy Birds for Family Inasmuch as families in the city and on the farm are arc being encouraged encouraged aged ed to produce more of what they hey consume attention should be he call call- callEd called called ed E-d to the value of keeping a small flock of chicken chickens Chickens can be rai raised successfully in close con con- con confinement and a small profitable home flock lock can be established est and maintained with little expense Only enough h land upon which to build a small coop is ned d and j much of the home home- home grown own feeds ft such as grain milk and alfalfa I Ican can be used to advantage Very little time and attention is re- re required required re required and children can be given iven the opportunity of contributing to 10 the family food supply by caring for a small email flock fleck Nutritionists have hn-c said that in order to be healthy every person should cat eat at least one eg egg a day and poultry meat once each week Many families are now going en- en en entirely tire I without poultry and aRd eg eggs s be beI because because cause they do not k keep p a home I lock flock and because money with which to purchase these foods is WhiCh not available isI I It is true that a few good flocks I are now bein being raised in the state but more and better ones need to tobe tobe tobe be established Since the purpose of keeping keepin n a small flock is to produce poultry and e eggs gs for the family one of the I I American breeds preferably the Plymouth rocks or the Rhode Is- Is Island Is Island land reds rods should be obtained It is isa I a mistake to raise leghorns in in these small home flocks because I volume is nC needed ded to market their eggs to advantage and they arc not so 50 desirable as the heavier breeds of chickens for eating pur- pur purposes pur purposes poses pur-I pur A flock of 50 pullets and 50 cock cocker cockerels cockerels er ls or capons is usually sufficient sufficient dent to produce enough poultry and ard e eggs egga gs for the family but in or- or order der der rIder to maintain this number about r-I r baby chicks should be hatched each year This can an be 00 done in in the natural way with hens or till ni-till- artificially emily dally in incubators and brooders Many have brooded d this number with s success s small in-small fireless or homemade brooders breeders where the is supplied bv by by the baby chick an electric light globe or a jar containing hot water A shed or semi-monitor semi coop with witha a cement floor that is ig dry clean and well-ventilated well should be provided for the home flock Four square feet teet of ot floor space I should be available per bird and a coop that is about 16 feet wide wide- wide and and I 24 feet long feet long with two compart compart- compartments compartments compartments ments is most desirable in which to house an average sized home homo lock flock Those who arc are desirous sirous of es- es establishing es establishing a n home homo flock or of im- im improving improving im improving proving the one they already have can re receive x ive additional assistance from their county agricultural agent Formulas for mixing feeds at home bulletins discussing the proper care and management of the tho flock caponizing and presen ing eggs in water glass blu blueprints for constructing coops fireless 3 brooders and feed hoppers for the home poultry flock can be obtain obtain- obtained obtained obtained ed without cost from the extension service at Logan |