Show rooster needs special feeding and management the rooster should have special feeding ind and management so na as to keep up ills vigor vitality constitution and nativity activity fena ays 11 II A head of the poultry husbandry department part ment at lown iowa state college care must be taken in tile the tion of roosters hut but even een after the proper males le been put into tile the lock flock it Is entirely possible to ruin the clin chances nees of getting a large number of fertile eggs says saya mr bitten bender first have the right pro portion of females lit in the alie lock flock gen C brally r ally we can use the following guide for died sterrit in tile the early part of the season one niale male to 14 females and wi as the season advances increase jease to 25 for american breeds one male to ten tell females parly early in the season find one to 15 later for asiatic and english breeds in most cases s it has fins been found liest best to use n lesser number of females than of the american breeds one good method of managing tho th rooster Is to keep the liens hens that are not laying in a pen by themselves ind and as they come into laying inyang put them into the breeding pens in this i way it Is possible to insure a grenter greater percentage of fertility from tile the ones that are laying during the earlier part of the season it Is if not necessary to have a trap nest in order to do tills this |