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Show FINDS ANCESTRY OF POULTRY IMPORTANT Inherited Weaknesses Cut Egg Production. Prepared by Poultry Department. Ohio State University. WNU Service. The ancestry of chicks may make them profitable additions to the farm flocks or total losses, according to G. S. VIckers of the Ohio Poultry Development association, who says that among the factors Inherited by chicks are early maturity, tendency to winter rest, broodlness, Intensity and persistence of production, and egg size. It has been shown clearly that the birds laying first or earliest, other things equal, are the best birds and lay the most eggs. The factor of early maturity in chickens chick-ens is Inherited and a chick is hatched with certain potentialities along this line, which no amount of care or feeding can change. Certain hens rest during the winter win-ter when eggs are high. They transmit trans-mit this tendency to their offspring. If It Is present there is a cut In egg production. Another factor Inherited In-herited by the birds is the tendency to broodiness. Now with the help of scientific Investigations, broodiness broodi-ness is being bred out of certain birds. By Intensity Is meant the number num-ber of eggs a bird lays each month. This ability of the hens to lay fast or slow Is of the greatest importance impor-tance In determining profits. It Is inherited. Chicks have It or they don't have it, and nothing can change their fundamental qualities. 1 |