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Show CHEAP CHICKS 'prove corny EXPERT SAYS Poultrymen Advised to Patronize Pat-ronize Reliable Hatcheries to Avoid Expensive Errors The following excrept from an article appearing in the Salt Lake Tribune, February 15th, is written by Prof. Carl Fisch-knecht Fisch-knecht of the Utah Agricultural College. It is brought to the attention of local poultry producers pro-ducers by Theodore Malm of the Dixie Products, Inc., who thoroughly agrees with Prof. Fischknecht and believes that these statements will be of value and interest to the producers. One of the most serious mistakes mis-takes a poultryman can make is to purchase cheap, inferior chicks, for there is no way of correcting this mistake once It has been made. Proper feeding, comfortable housing, plenty of range and extra care and management man-agement will do much to develop de-velop good pullets and hens, but nothing can take the place of good breeding. Too dften in purchasing chicks we think only of the initial expenses ex-penses and not of that which is to follow. A chick that is not bred with the urge to lay, that is, small, weak and unthrifty, un-thrifty, is expensive at any price and should never be purchased. pur-chased. This is especially true in years like the present one, when money is scarce, when credit is hard to get, and when the cost of production is nearly as great as the value of the product produced. It is always a good idea to place your order with a good reliable hatohery that is not too I far away, for recent axperi-i axperi-i ments have shown that chicks are handicaped if they are not I fed within 3 0 hours after they ' are removed from the incubator. incuba-tor. j Accredited," "pedigreed" and "certified" are unstandardized 1 poultry terms commonly used 1 in connection with the sale of , baby chicks that may mean a great deal when used by some j hatcheries and very little when j used by others. For this reason it is a good plan, if possible, ! to visit the breeding flocks that ! are furnishing eggs to the hatch- ery from which you expect to order your chicks. If this cannot can-not be done it is advisable to obtain information direct from the Hatchery and that will give you in detail the requirements that are being met by the breeders from whom eggs for hatching purposes are bought. Price is not an indication of quality, however; those who pay more have a right to expect extra quality in the chicks they receive. Quality chicks possess vigor and vitality. They grow fast, mature early, make large sized individuals, lay large eggs, and produce heavily. For this reason rea-son you cannot afford to sacrifice sac-rifice quality for quantity when purchasing baby chicks. |
