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Show Around the Poultry Yard Provide water ii abundance but not too cold or freezing. Artificial lights provide the layers lay-ers with 12 to 14 hours of feeding time. Several hundred thousand chickens chick-ens In flocks throughout Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania have been tattooed In a vigorous vig-orous campaign to stop poultry thieving. The lll'3o hatchery code contains provisions covering chlcken-sxing. Infinite guarantees must be made to purchasers who buy their chicks by sex, and these guarantees must be fulfilled. a Breeding rations have been greatly great-ly Improved within the last few years and one of the significant features fea-tures of this Improvement is the great increase In the amount of milk recommended. Pel; in ducks can be distinguished when they are seven to eight weeks old by their voice. The duck has a pronounced -quack," while the drake has a shrill voire of a much lower note. |