Show Outlines Plans Plans For Culling The Pout Poultry Flock The selection of hens heno for egg gt production is always an Important for poultry ni subject C c 1 Y says ys Byron Alder Aider extension poul- poul tryman poul-tryman tryman of or the State Agricultural tural colle p It is especially im POl right now is lS this is the time of the year when rainy miny hn hens that th hn have hate e been only fair or poor producers during the past few months have topped stopped producing and hive have gone into an early molt We are also alo approach approaching the time when the pullets should be se- se selected se selected to go into the laying laving 13 lo house for nc next t years year's producers Egg production of your flock for the the next next t twelve eh ehe e months does not de- de vend so co much on whether your Jour flock is all Ill pullets all hens one year ye old or older or part hens and rt pirt pullets as it does lees on the kind of birds you JOU hive ve in your flock All birds that are placed in n the h laying house for next year icar ear should choul be carefully selected for health i igor good size and del de as these are the first essentials for a n high production Effective e culling of a poultry flock I is not a difficult task if the basIc principles of sel selection scle hon of the good birds are arc once mastered Since this n of selection election should be continuous 1 hut the year the owner or caretaker this work bet bet- better better bet I should be able to do ter tor n and d more efficiently than any one else eise I When the youn young birds arc are placed in 10 the laying pens rens which should I be by bv the the- time they the are aro five to five and ind one half balf months old each cb bird should be handled ins ind examined exam exam- examined ined med first for size fleshing fleshin COI cn ci i hons and ind plumage e and only lar largo Vl vigorous orous well ell fleshed birds in m full with yellow shanks bec best and skin shin should go o into the laying I that are pen pens I pullets comp small scrubby or 01 I those not well weB fleshed with Ith rough drY and pale or whIte white white-hinks chinks and besk have hate some seldom If Ife cil 11 handicap and are e eier eer er profitable After good gonel vigorous pullets ire lre in 10 the Ir lip ing pens and fed fert housed and handled as good pul- pul pullets pul pullets lets should be there is little hUle so- so se lection or elimination that can cnn bedone bedone done for the first two or three months except to take out ont those bIrds that ret yet sick or otherwise get out of condition I |