Show Orphan Chicks Best Raise your old day chicks away from home it if you want them to grow up to to-be to be healthy layers is the advice of Ohio research poultry poultry- men Isolation of young chicks from older birds but allowing them use of range on the thc experiment station farm resulted in a mortality rate of 56 per cent In an adjoining pen other pullets hatched from station eggs but which had been grown to laying age away from the station had a mortality rate ot of only 24 per percent percent cent This experiment caused the Ohio scientists to point out the need for a new phase of specialization tion in poultry raIsing the production production tion of livable lay pullets The brooding ot of chicks and the growth of pullets In the future may largely become a commercial en- en enterprise In the hands of specialists Country Home Magazine |