Show flashlight BIG AID IN CULLING shows many loafers among layers in hen flock literally catching the loafers napping pill Is an excellent method of culling the poultry flock if the afie cutting culling process Is carried on irom from week to week extension specialists lists in poultry at the ohio state university suggest that tile the weekly culling may he be done very conveniently with a flashlight when tile the birds are on the roost at night birds showing shriveled combs or molt or having empty crops crop should bo be culled absence of yellow pigment as one of the indications of a good producer and it may be difficult under a flashlight to determine the coloring of the ilie eye rings earlobes ear lobes vent beak an and d shanks if there ts Is doubt the birds COD can be isolated and examined again by dai light the heavy egg producers will have ost lost yellow color from tile the body mentioned flower eer er the color will return should the bird cease to lay in the low producer the comb Is pale small and shriveled the vent Is stellow jt allow shrunken and dry eyes are small and shrunken turning in toward the beak shanks are yellow round and full the pelvic bones close together it hard ard and rigid space between the pelvic bones and the breast bone Is shallow or full of hard fat the skin Is thick find and with tat fal the bird Is generally narrow across the ribs and hips and the body Is shallow and round |