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Show WlJJUli ALL-NIGHT LIGHTS MAY HARM PULLETS Early Morning Best Time for Illumination. Chickens of all ages and conditions condi-tions do not respond equally well to artificial illumination, and a lot of discretion Is required In attempting attempt-ing to stimulate egg production by night or early morning lights In the poultry house. Pullets do better under early morning lights. All-night lights are over-stimulating and may result in Injury to the pullets. Old hens withstand all-night lighting successfully, success-fully, according to C. M. Ferguson, Fergu-son, extension specialist in poultry husbandry for the Ohio State university. uni-versity. With hens it Is more a matter of determining when egg production is most wanted. In producing eggs for the market, use lights and delay de-lay the period of molt, advises Ferguson. Fer-guson. But if eggs are wanted for supplying a hatchery this winter win-ter or next spring, it is all wrong to light the poultry house now. Although lights do not affect the hatchability of the eggs, lights too early result in reducing the supply of eggs in early spring when demand de-mand by hatcheries is at its peak. Most marked results from lighting light-ing may be obtained when used immediately im-mediately after the molting period. If all-night lights are used on the flock too much intensity should be avoided, according to the poultry specialist. A ten-watt lamp or ordinary or-dinary barn lantern or gas jet with mantle provides sufficient light. Light should be directed at the feed and water receptacles, he says. For early morning lights on hens or pullets a 40 or 50 watt lamp with a reflector attached and placed six feet above the floor seems to give best results. It should be illuminated illu-minated about 4 a. m. |
