Show iro M MAKE CHANGES IN POULTRY HOUSES farmers insulate the walls and ceilings by ey R E cray extension ahlo bbate university Univ ersty ty service farmers die are 1001 ing to the comfort of their hens th s winter tl TI ey find it pays egg production Is more con stant during the cold winter months many farmers have reduced the cubic content of their chicken houses and others have installed heating systems to be used when the weather Is ls so cold the water in the houses freezes false raise ceilings are installed to cut the cubic capacity of the houses some are made with wire netting above in which straw is stuffed other farmers employ a good insulating material reci recluse use warm air rises it is tho th roof that needs to be insulated some poultry men also insulate the walls in their poultry houses some with straw held in place by wire netting others with commercial insulating material still others go further modifying the window arrangement by eliminate ing the bafflers formerly recommend ed and fitting all of the openings with glass windo windows s or glass substitutes also are worrying less about damp floors in their poultry houses results recently announced bv experiment stations point to tern tem pera ture control as more important than keeping the house thoroughly dry when the temperature in the house becomes so cold that the water freezes in the drinking fountains brooder stoves are recommended the stove should be surrounded with wire net ting to keep the I 1 ater away incubator eggs and baby chicks subject to codes even incubator eggs and baby chicks are subject to codes the outstanding feature of the proposed 1935 hatchery code Is the development of a national breeding and disease eradication pro gram in the poultry industry of the united states this program Is under the direction of the secretary of agri culture the purpose of the code is to prevent unfair competitive practices and mis leading and deceptive methods of ad ver and to promote the best in teresta of the industry in all possible ways it Is also aimed to aid workers in the hatcheries by specifying the hours of labor and wages also an attempt Is made to protect the buyer against misrepresentation and fraud hatching chicks in the day to day operation of the incubator there Is perhaps nothing more important than frequent and reg ular turning of the eggs the more turning the better at least up to four times in each 24 hours turning Is more effective during the first half halt than during the latter half of the incura tion period this suggests that it should be begun early it Is consid ered sound practice to continue turn ing until the eggs abeln to pip one should not be in too much of a hurry to remove the chicks from the incura cpr pr they should be given time to become thoroughly dry chilling at that time constitutes a serious handicap if the hatch Is good the moisture from hatching chicks may be enough to chill them successful farming fish oil aids production two years experimental work at the dominion experimental farm scott ask has shown that pilchard fis fish h oil added at the rate of 2 per cent to the laying mash of equal parts by weight of oat chop barley chop bran shorts and beef scrap has increased egg production 31 per cent over the production from pullets fed the same mash without the oil cod liver livet 01 oil I 1 fed at the same rate increased pro 20 per cent where fish meal was used to replace beef scrap in the mash the production remained cally constant and no objectionable flavor was detected in the eggs when bran and shorts were replaced by ground whole wheat production was increased by 3 per cent sex of wild geese the wiy way to tell the difference between a male and female in wild geese is by the shape of the bird the males are usually much larger than the fe males longer necked and coarser bodied the male always keeps hs h s head up higher than the female and is usually on guard so far as pro to the flock Is concerned when the male and female mate in the spring the noise made by either one Is of equal proportions the markings are identical on both male and female thin shelled eggs produce eggs with thick shells by eliminating from the breeding pen each year all birds that lay thin shelled eggs and feeding the layers plenty of 0 ster shells or other forms of calcium carbonate the shell being composed largely of calcium cir carbonate bonate and plenty of vitamin D such as Is found in cod liver oil or give the birds ac cess to adequate sunlight because a lack of vitamin D efti often n results in thin shelled eggs says the wisconsin agri |