Show poultry expert tells how to get early fall layers laye s C 04 to the quicker chicks make the jump from tile the seventh week of age to the laying kayin house providing they are fully grown grow a and fully developed the sooner start making money in the nests says C S johnson manager of the purina poultry department to do this job of growing large type well developed birds in the shortest possible time requires as close attention to their care and feeding during the growing period as during the first six weeks of 0 their lives letting chicks shift for themselves after tile the sixth week by feeding grain and occasional table scraps happens all too frequently and the reason for the oft proved statement that the poultry min either makes or breaks himself by the way he cares tor for his pullets from the sixth to the twentieth week the sorry part Is tint th the poultry raiser doest realize the mistake until its too late when he finds himself without eggs in the fall when prices are at their highest coasters are costly the cost of letting up in the care of young pullets as compared to good aran management argement and feeding to keep them coining as fast as possible has been made a matter of special study at the purina research farm it may seem cheaper after giving chicks a giorid start to turn them out and let them rustle for their food but when they coast right on through those fall months of high egg prices price and dont develop enough to come into production until after the first of the ye year ar the owner loses that rood good egg money he should be getting to get extra egg money the average egg produced from september to january Is worth two eggs produced during the other seven months according to johnson linson Jo the poultry ralser raiser who tilts hits this period of high egg prices september through january januar Y w with ith big pullets at 50 per cent production or better has by march 1st ast paid the teed feed cost for the entire laying lear paid a profit above all costs and has his birds making money for the remainder of the year almost regardless of egg i rices extra profit per birds pullets that are ready for early laying Is a job for feed because pullets are made of feed they must be supplied with the materials that will develop body frames tissues muscles and egg producing organs it takes unbalanced balanced a growing feed to do this according to purina experiment farm records pullets raised on a balanced growing ration produced extra profi per hundred birds over pulle pullets s on grain alone |