Show APEX HATCHERY TO BE BIG PART OF POULTRY PLAt PLAN Utah will bo 10 a great bab baby chick exporting state sending ending several million dollars worth of ot live chicks Ind hatchery hatcher eggs into the I neighboring states each year ear when a program initiated b by the Utah Poultry Producers Producers' rs' rs Cooperative association association as as- Is la completed it i la 13 announced announced announced an an- by Clyde C. C Edmunds general manager The program calls for tor the development development develop develop- ment of ot a strain of ot white leghorn chicks that will be at least the equal of ot all any produced in the tho United Unit cd ed States from the standpoints of or health vigor productivity lt and sze of ot eggs It Is Js believed that with wilh chicks and hatching eggs of ot such i superior quality Utah will wll not only I be called upon to satisfy her O own D i needs but will be able ablo to market mark t ti i these products in most of ot the w west western t. t ern rn states At present b between tween tw en one and two billion bit bil lion bab baby chicks are Imported Into Utah h each year ear whim while the tile total used nee I is between three e t ana lUG four flour millor chicks Any l i pr ran rati therefore which increases the B Beehive Beehive Bee Bee- hive states state's chick production bY bv stimulating the use of Utah hatched and bred chicks in this state would bo vo vastly important aside from the thee e export port angle it Jt was pointed out The first and perhaps the most Important step in the program program has hag just t been completed ted It consists of the thc establishment of or a nu number ber of or experimental bree breeding farms In Utah designed to demonstrate th the fe and practicability ty of using only y parent stock for breeding that has been blood tested tooted for dis- dis eaSo easa and trap nested for tor quality and and quantity of ot eggs laid The Utah Poultry association with the cooperation of three local hatching and breeding concerns concorDS has set up three farms and at least one rone other is under consid consideration ration 1 The le cooperators are the Apex giant I Hatchery company at Manti Mantl the tho Utah Ut-ah Coc o Bab Baby Chick Hatchery at Salt Lake and the Mil Mil- ton B. B Cannon Hatch Hatchery ry of Ha Halla- Halla II av The invitation to cooperate in tho the experiment and demonstration tion was extended by the Utah poultry poultry poul voul- try try association to all tho the bona fide tide fideI j I members of ot tho the Utah Hatcheries Hatcheries' and Breeders' Breeders association About 12 of the best hens in n the tho state have haye been selected from farms all nIl over o Utah to comprise part of ot the thi th breeding stock Thoy They have been blood blond tested to make mako certain certain certain tain they are free of ot the dIsease and then trap nested neste-d for c egg n quality and quantity Only those thos hens liens laying eggs that arc near perfect in Iii whiteness size and andI I shape were chos chosen m. m Eyer Every precaution Hon tion has been taken to eliminate the heus hens laying small eggs f for r two Bounces s has been set as the minImum minimum mini- mini mum inurn size requirement S So rigid has been the culling cf ct the hens that it has hns been necessary r II to W han handle le some birds t t t. I obtain ob- ob tain tho the or able ble to meet the requirements The hens beni at ft ata ata a Q breeding bree farm were first culled fat at sight of ot those which e could not qualify and thon thou the others were picked up handled ant and is weighed to make certain th they y met size and conformation requirements before ven even King submitted d t to the blood tests and trap nesting C Large prices have been beer paid paid for tor fertile ferUle eggs from t tae lf CJ cockerels J wIlle wll wIl tu t. Latched hatched ani nl carefully reared One of ot the three breeding farms mentioned Is ig at Manti with a n stock of some senne birds another is just south of the mouth of or Little Litile Cotton Cottonwood Cottonwood wood canyon with about hf hens ns fend and the tho third located nearby with about 2 2000 hens When the quality of Utah chicks hi kg Is definitely proven it is expected that within a few tew years tha the pula le reputation I I tion tion of ot these birds will be as widespread wide wide- c ad spread as the reputation of or this states state's eggs and dressed poultry The result would be the develop- develop sent mt of ot a great export baby chick S Industry here Mr Dir Edmonds bo- bo I Heves loves |