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Show r i! PEDIGREE SYSTEM OF POULTRY RAISING ; , . , fBy C. T. PATTERSON.) Owing to the many questions asked j concerning the keeping of pedigree records, we believe an explanation of our pedigree system will be of interest to all who intend to keep records of their breeding yards in the future. The success of any institution depends de-pends to a great extent upon the system sys-tem of operation and system of records. rec-ords. The two most important points to be considered are accuracy and simplicity. sim-plicity. It is necessary for all poultry breeders breed-ers who do accurate breeding to adopt I and pullets are used in the same pen, the first five are hens and the last tiv4 are pullets. Hide the right-hand figure of a hen's number and you have the pen number, also the male's number iu that pen. One yard may contain a number of pens, but this does not break the numbering system. If any bird gets out of the pen, the number tells where it belongs. Each lien is caught in a trnpnest when she goes on to the nest to lay, and upon being released, her baud number is placed on the egg. It will be seen that an egg marked in 1472 is i ( :?., " . " ' '-. v - , - 'i.v-'- a . r. ' , -,'.t- "'u ',r v: J p , , &Jl.ik . ?LJ BREEDING PEN AT MISSOURI STATION some method or system of keeping records rec-ords and the less complication, the greater the value of the system. The Missouri state poultry experiment experi-ment station is all under one system of band numbers, which is as follows fol-lows : All pens are numbered, the male in each pen bears the same number num-ber as the pen, and each hen bears the same number and In addition her individual number to the right. To illustrate, pen No. 147 contains male No. 147, and females from 1470 to 1479 Inclusive, there being ten females in each breeding pen, and where hens from hen 2 in pen 147 and fertilized by mule 147, while 1476 is from pullet 6 in pen 147 and fertilized by male 147. When the egg is Incubated and the chick hatched in pedigree tray, the number on the egg is placed on the chick's leg band . and as soon as the band needs loosening because of the chick's leg growing, the band is placed in the chick's wing where it remains permanently. Thus the pedigree pedi-gree band is in the wing, which will prevent confusing the pullet with the hen which has her band on the leg. |