| Show breeding up hen flock for higher production it if the oregon experiment station had not bred froan their high prodoc ing birds they could not have secured tiro tire results they did As a result they have increased the tha average of the en tire iro hock flock not all SOO eggers will reproduce themselves yes heredity does not always pass down to the first fenera generation sometimes it skips a generation iilah productivity can only be secured th in the hock flock where there Is vigor and vitality vigor Is not always indicated by tile tho appearance of ue tho bird factory tors Indle indicate fite vitality include a heavy production of eggs of goud good fertility and good and the hens clil chicks clis must prow grow well and develop well the average in commercial broeders bre eders flocks over the state of oregon wis was about eggs the college started trap nesting and select selecting ing their birds lit ill five years from that hat time yo we had increased the production freiri an av erase of eggs to eggs done entirely by s selective elective breeding ellmin kt ing the poor producers we had jumped fron from the egg individual to the egg individual at A the present time the KOO egg individual Is quite A G lunn oregon A agricultural college |
