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Show Laying Hens Need Lime The Importance of keeping hens well supplied with limestone, oyster shell or some other form of calcium carbonate Is emphasized by results obtained in investigations. Where no limestone or oyster shell was fed, but the ration was otherwise the same, the Investigators observed that: The hatchabllity of fertilized eggs was diminished, finally becoming zero. The percentage of infertile eggs increased. in-creased. Fewer eggs were laid. The eggs became smaller. The eggs became lighter. The chicks hatched weighed less. |