| Show selection of breeding rooster vital matter roosters Bo it if matured by the beginning of the breeding season are more reliable breeders bleeders bre eders the first season than afterwards producing more young though the quality may be somewhat inferior to what the same birds would produce in their second and third breeding seasons in large breeds mate six elx to ten hens bens with one male and with lighter breeds the proportion may be as high as 12 to 15 hens to one rooster males should be kept separate from the females except in the breeding season in a large flock where males and females run together promiscuously the dominant male may be ruined by overwork some regulation lation Is advisable in such cases |
