| Show BACKYARD BACK YARD FLOCKS REDUCE FOOD OST COST C table scraps may be used to feed poultry poultry Elten 10 bp parrish ny by C P r north carolina Crol ln state collet college wro WU service the backyard back yard poultry gro growing wing industry has hag always been an important factor in poultry growing and should be expanded luring during the present presen t period As a reason for this suggestion su backyard back yard poultry keeping Is affected less by changing economic conditions than any other productive enterprise in times of high prices great numbers of persons keep fowls as is a means of reducing the cost of living in times of depression the b backyard flock may play an important part in the struggle to keep going on a reduced income then too fowls are most adaptable and may be kept successfully under a wide ra range ng ge of conditions it Is true when the range Is restricted strict ed and methods are intensified the feed and labor cost for each bird Is increased this may not be a handicap since experience nag has shown us that when farmers produce eggs and poultry at lowest cost they do not necessarily make the largest ne net t profit prof it either on the birds or the labor used it Is cheaper possibly to buy feed than to buy eggs and chickens and much of the table scraps or surplus green vegetables may be used to advantage with the backyard back yard lock flock to in keeping poultry to in the backyard however houses should be well ventilated ti but not open to winds and rain good dropping boards clean nests plenty of fresh water in clean containers ta and curtains for protecting the tha birds during bad weather are necessary while the houses should have open fronts the birds must have adequate protection during cold rainy weather use sanitary practice to redu reduce ce chick loss Poultry men who put health first last year in the growing of their pullets suffered less than 7 per cent loss of chicks D a henderson enderson II poultry extension specialist of the pennsylvania state college says that operators cooperators co with the agricultural extension service in the state last year reported the growing of chicks the average loss of chicks reported was 10 4 per cent but poultry men who used all the sanitary practices recommended by the extension poultry specialists had bad a loss of only per cent the five recommended practices included quality chicks from vigorous stock early hatching clean brooder houses clean feeders rod and clean grounds since this plan of growing chicks was started in the state there has been a consistent decrease in chick losses in 1929 the average loss among coop co op orators was 15 per cent but those who used all the clean practices lost only 10 per cent in 30 the average loss was vias per cent and those who used all the sanitary practices lost only 8 per cent in 1031 the average was slightly over 10 per cent and the loss for those using all the clean practices was less than 7 per cent A productive hen A single comb rhode island red hen owned by the north dakota agricultural college laid eggs in two years according to 0 A barton head of the poultry department the eg begs from this hen sold for a total of in the records kept it was found that this hen consumed pounds of feed at a cost of leaving a balance of in two years the Is the amount which was received for overa overhead ead cost and labor lab or in come eggs produced by this ben had a total weight of about CZ pounds or more than ten times her body weight she produced her eggs on an average of slightly over four pounds of feed per dozen and at a feed cost of approximately 5 cents per dozen wallaces farmer poultry notes plenty of sunlight and fresh air in the he poultry houses greatly reduces disease troubles 0 0 yearling liens hens or older ones in corn helt belt flocks chocta are 20 times as likely to have t tuberculosis ab e acu I 1 os Is a as 8 pullets pullet a new zealand expects to export eggs to britain this year about twice the quantity exported to lo 1932 the egg a pullet lays la Is about 0 9 per cent smaller than the egg from which she was hatched hven even with the lower prices prevailing manitoba realized from dressed poultry last season at each the turkeys brought 0 poultry Is leading iowa farmers out of the econom economic be crisis with a larger income than during WI 1931 and 1930 19 30 according to the poultry eten extension slon department part ment ot of iowa state college |
