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Show GET EARLY LAYING PULLETS First Egg From White Leghorn Chicken at Four Months and Fourteen Four-teen Days at Ohio College. A single-comb White Leghorn pullet, pul-let, that laid her first egg just four months and fourteen days from the fate of her hatching, is one of the results re-sults of breeding for early maturity obtained by the Ohio Agricultural :ollege. The usual age at which pullets pul-lets begin laying is about six months. This extraordinary fowl was one of a group of 720 that were hatched 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 Yesterlald strain of single-comb White Leghorns, that had been bred especially to develop early laying. It may be interesting to know just how this flock was fed. From the first day to the sixth week they received re-ceived 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 re-ceived three times a day a moist mash composed of four pounds rolled oats, three pounds cornmeal, three pounds wheat middlings, six pounds wheat bran, four pounds sifted meat scraps, two pounds alfalfa meal, one-quarter one-quarter pound bone meal, one-quartel pound fine charcoal. This was mixed with skim milk 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 open hoppers. From the twenty-first twenty-first day to maturity they received a mash composed of one pound rolled oats, one pound corn meal; one pound wheat middlings, two pounds wheat bran, one pound sifted meat scraps, one-half pound alfalfa meal, two ounces fine charcoal. This was fed dry in open hoppers. In addition they were given green foods and ?rits. |