| Show FARM L TOPICS 10 HATCH EARLY GET PROMPT PRODUCERS pullets should come into late summer yield dy D dr r W C thompson poultry department Part ment rutger 0 university service 1 c e plan spring egg hatches so BO that there will be pullets starting production for the duration of the 14 late to summer and tall fall months for a more nearly balanced income through the year judging from the experiences of many hundreds of poultry men during recent years it would seem to bo be on an economical and practice to plan to bring oft off approximately 25 per cent of the total number of chicks desired during 1039 1939 as early hatched so that the pullets from those hatches will come into egg yield in late july or during august such early hatched leghorn pullets would reach first egg about august I 1 and continue in satisfactory is production until mid md november if such early hatched pullets are put under artin artificial cial lights in the late tall fall a tendency toward partial molt and a somewhat reduced egg yield can probably bo be avoided late summer or early tall fall egg prices are usually good tor for the supply of fresh eggs at that season Is often low to be able to take advantage of that situation the would do well to consider starting his chick season early another advantage of having 25 per cent of the chicks early hatched Is that it makes possible a more economical and efficient use of incubation and brooder equipment |
