Show keep the pullets busy regarded as good advice just as a school teacher has the tea most trouble with her pupils in the first week of the school term so does doea the have the most trouble with his pullets the first week they are confined from summer range states a commercial commer ciRl in pathfinder magazine during the first week in the laying house many pullets learn the vices that are responsible tor for mortality during the winter feather picking e egg g eating laying on the floor and other bad habits are started soon after birds are housed it is very important that pullets b be kept busy when they are first confined supply liberal quantities of 0 green feed keep laying mash before them in open hoppers make them scratch and work as much as possible provide enough nests so that there will be no crowding ce be sure the birds are free from lice and the house tree free from mites |