Show KEEP TAB ON CHICKS toe marks valuable where line breeding Is worked considerable time and labor ln evolved but it paya fancy breeder to pedigree his and eliminate culls in practicing line breeding I 1 usa trap nests la in my breeding pens during the batching season 1 wish to keep a record 0 of the chicks from in hens each hens agga egga are set un bantam hens cheso little are just the things for aa as they will cover from seven to ten eggs BO you can set each hena eggs before they aro too old after the chicks are batched each brood Is placed in separate coups with runs attached and when a week old are toe marked with a punch made tor the purpose which can be procured at any poultry supply house or a harness punch may be used writes archie E of dela ware county N Y in the farm and home As will be been by the dla gram a good many different marks can ba made the coops are placed in convenient places about the farm as far apart as possible so if a chick happens to get out of the yard it will not mingle with the others after they are three or four months old they are leg banded with healed bands and then are allowed to run together all the band numbers ara carefully recorded as well as the v w vy v v w arl vv vv ay sy lir w vv vv punch marks between toes way in which the toes were marked of course all this takes considerable time but to the fancy breeder it pays to pedigree his birds and he will have less per cent of culls it you do your hatching in incura tors you can get some pedigree trays to place in the incubator instead of the regular trays these are con strutted ted with compartments so that the eggs can be kept separate and also the chicks hatched before placing the chicks in the brooder they are carefully toe marked GET EARLY LAYING PULLETS first egg from white leghorn chicken at four months and four teen days at ohio college A comb white leghorn pullet that laid her first egg just four months and fourteen days from tho date of her hatching Is one of the results of breeding for early maturity obtained by the ohio agricultural college the usual age at which pul lets begin laying Is about sir months this extraordinary fowl was one of a group of that were batched at the same time five or six others from this group began laying much earlier than ordinary fowls showing that it pays to breed for early maturity they were from the strain of comb white leghorns Leg horns that had been bred especially to develop early laying it may be interesting to know just how this flock was fed from tho first day to the sixth week they received twice a day a grain ration of two pounds fine cracked corn and three pounds cracked wheat up un til the twenty first day they also received three times a day a moist mash composed of four pounds rolled oo 00 ts three pounds cornmeal three pounds wheat six pounds wheat bran four pounds sifted meat scraps two pounds alfalfa meal one quarter pound bone meal one quarter pound fine charcoal this was mixed with skim mleh or buttermilk and fed in shallow trays from the sixth week to maturity they received a grain ration of two pounds cracked corn and two pounds whole wheat fed in n open hoppers from the twenty first day to maturity they received a mash composed of one pound rolled oats one pound corn meal one round aund wheat two pounds wheat bran one pound sifted meat scraps one halt pound alfalfa meal two ounces fine charcoal this was id fid dry in open hoppers in addition they were given green foods and brits duckling and chick A duckling does not know how to get out of danger instead it will become acome panic stricken and remain an easy prey for the enemy on the contrary a chicken Is always on tha llort scampering olt to come hiding dace place the moment that it bears come noise t S tf |