| Show KEEP TAB ON C HICKS toe marks valuable where line lin e breeding Is worked considerable time and labor I 1 in n evolved but it paye pays fancy breed er to pedigree hit his birds and eliminate culls in practicing line breeding I 1 uso usa trap nests in my breeding pens dur ing the hatching batching season I 1 if I 1 wish a keep a record of the chicks from in ili hens each hens orga eggs are sot set under bantam hens bons these little midgets are just the things for this purpose na as they will cover coer from seven tp ten ton eggs so you can sot set each hens egge eggs before they are too old after tho chicks are hatched each brood Is placed in separate colpi with runs attached and m when hen a week old are toe too marked n ith a punch made for the purpose which can be procured at any poultry supply house or a harness punch may be used writes rites archie E Vand Vande enort rort of dela ware county N Y in the farm and home nome As will mill be seen by the dia gram grain a good many different marks can be made the coops are placed in convenient places about the farm as far dupart as possible so it if a chick happens to get out of tho tha said aid it will III not mintle with mith the athers after they are three or four months old they are leg banded with sealed bands and then are allowed to v ys 3 w vv is 2 ay V 6 v 16 r v V 14 3 7 I 1 I 1 vr v 43 4 W v 7 w va v n V vv V T punch marks between toes rua a together all the band numbers are carefully recorded as well nell as the way in which the toes were mailed if you do your hatching in incubi tors tor sou 3 ou can get some pedigree ans tr 8 to lo 10 place in the incubator instead of the regular tramp these are constructed ted with co compartments so that the eggs can be kept separate and also the chicks hatched before placing the tile chicks in the brooder they are carefully toe marked GET EARLY LAYING PULLETS first egg from white leghorn chicken at four months and four teen days at ohio college A single comb white leghorn pullet that laid her first egg just four months and fourteen days from tho late of her hatching hatchin 9 Is one of the re suits of breeding for early in maturity obtained by the ohio agricultural ollege the usual age ago at which h pul lets begin laying Is about six months this extraordinary fowl was one of a group of that were mere hatched at the same time five or six others from I 1 this group began laying much earlier that it showing than ordinary fowls pays tc to breed for early maturity they were from the Yester laid strain of single comb white leghorns Leg horns that had been bred especially to develop early laying to know just interesting it may be how this flock was fed from tho the first day to the st sixth ith week they their received twice a day a grain ration of two pounds fine cracked cor corn n and wheat UP vp until three pounds cracked racked c the twenty first day they also re celver three times a 11 day a moist mash composed of four pounds poun da rolled cornmeal ahr three Es oats three pounds pounds wheat six pounds sifted meat wheat bran four pounds two pounds alaffa alta ita meal one ont scraps quarter pound bone meal onu one quarter aror mixed this was mas charcoal pound fillo with skim milk or b buttermilk utter milk and fed sixth from the shallow trays in maturity they received rece ived a week to cracked 0 ed pounds c ra two ration of grain whole ahei wheat it fed and two pounds corn from the twenty tv ent in hoppers open 1 received a to maturity they brat first day rolaf mash composed of one pound one pound nd corn meal oate oats one poll two pounds pound pound wheat sifted meat neat wheat bran one pound meal scraps one half balf pound alfalfa this aia charcoal two ounces fine in I 0 addition to fed d d dry in open hoppers foods and d they were given green o 0 illta |
