| Show WJ V THREE GOOD RULES FOR QUALITY EGGS keep them clean cool and gather often by IL D n CRAT specialist in poultry omo ohio state university W NU service producing quality summer eggs la is not difficult when three simple rules rulea are followed eggs should be kept clean gathered three times a day and stored in a cool place until ready to ship by storing eggs in a cool place as aa soon as they are gathered it Is fairly easy to keep the size of the air coll to a minimum this checks evaporation through the shell and helps helpa insure a small percentage of stale eggs clean eggs may be produced by providing VI ding one nest for every five hens by covering the perches with wire and by confining the birds to the laying house until the majority of the eggs are gathered eggs can also be soiled if the hands bands of the attendant are wet or damp and soiled still another practice which la Is one of the most important from the standpoint of producing quality eggs Is the practice of gathering eggs at least two or three times a day this he helps ps to keep the eggs clean and cool experience shows that farmers gathering eggs even five to six times a day are well repaid it if vey they market their produce on a graded basis broilers fattened well on cereal ration alone A test was carried on at the poultry division central experimental farm ottawa canada comparing two rations one of which contained meat meal and the other cereal feeds only for fattening broilers equal parts of ground wheat ground oats and ground barley made up the cereal ration with the addition of 10 per cent of merit meat meal to the other both were fed three times dally daily using sour skim milk as a mixer and mixing each feed one feeding in advance two lots of chickens seven weeks of age were used thirty seven birds were in one and thirty six in the other group these birds were banded and weighed individually in grams at the beginning at the end of the first week and at the end of the experiment fourteen days the average gain for the two lots was practically identical the difference being only one tenth of an ounce per bird double incubator service double service from brooding equipment netted mrs ell briner oskaloosa an extra 50 last season says the kansas farmer baby chicks were brooded blooded until may blay 23 and then moved out after these quarters were carefully dis infected gl 01 little turkeys were moved into them the boults were hatched right after may 23 just pa 61 of them six smothered two died from unknown causes and 53 were matured on november 19 the birds averaged 15 pounds with a total expense shown at 2 a bird on the books sudan and wheat made up the green feed and a mash recommended by the agricultural college was fed black head and other turkey troubles were eliminated through the use of a sanitary hall ball screen sereen runway net profit for the operation amounted to to the bird F fighting lice and mites for the eradication of lice and mites keep your poultry house clean keep fresh litter in nests and paint the roosts boosts with nicotine sulphate advises aises vises a writer in the southern agriculturist it if hens are used for setting mites will be sure to come but if you will put 5 or 6 drops of nicotine sulphate in a few places on the straw around the hen in the nest within four days mites will be gone it if mites are on oi the floor put nicotine sulphate on straw ai in several places repeat process 6 s when ale n necessary I 1 have found this practice to be a great labor saver as I 1 have raised in more ore chickens this year than I 1 have ever raised and I 1 did not have to spray the house or dip my hens you can cail get gel nicotine sulphate at seed houses bouses or drug stores wil watch hens Proa production fiction that there there Is a ir tremendous emen dous differ ence in egg laying ability has been demonstrated la in ohio by the record of performance flock dock owners who nest their birds they find somo some individuals divi duals lay nearly every day while others lay only every other or every third day all under identically the same conditions for a years laying some few lay over ova eggs and others less than a hundred there Is most assuredly a differ difference enco in chickens I 1 ohio farmer |
