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Show CHANGE MALE BIRDS YEARLY Most Successful Breeders Do Not Advocate Ad-vocate Practice Immature Fowls Not Desirable. Many people get the idea that It is always best to change male birds every ev-ery year. The most successful breeders breed-ers do not advocate this yearly change. Good male birds may be kept profitably profit-ably for two or three years. The use of immature males eventually will result re-sult iu reducing the size of the stock in general. If it is desirable to use voting birds, they should be well grown and developed. de-veloped. As a rule when young mnles are used it is preferable to breed them to older hens. Old males may be mated mat-ed likewise with young hens or pullets. pul-lets. Unless the young stock Is well grown it is quite well to use the older slock on both sides. |