Show ROOSTERS MUST GO FOR SAKE OF EGGS special day marketing gets rid of males prepared by the poultry division college of agriculture university of 0 1111 service the open season for roosters is on oil and right now dow the life of the tee king king of the barnyard who plays the leat leading role in lowering the quality of summer eggs Is in a hazardous position rooster days are being sponsored by farm advisers chambers of commerce newspapers and poultry companies in all parts of the state slate with the result that male birds young ind and old are being corralled for market premium prices and prizes are to farmers who brin bring their roosters to town on special da days S even old age records do not protect the birds for on rooster day in one county a bird claimed to be fourteen years old failed to survive the last round up there back of these rooster day celebia eions is an almost statewide effort to produce higher quality eggs this summer and fall during the warm months fertile eggs are ahe the first to deteriorate teri ter orate but by removing the male birds from the flocks farmers can take the first step toward insuring better keeping qualities in their market eggs approximately is believed to have been lost by illinois egg producers in one year as a result of marketing low quality y and bad eggs and to fertile eggs can be laid the blame for a large portion of this loss in a survey of farms made in one section of illinois it was found that 80 per cent of the flock owners were producing fertile eg eggs g s during t all seasons A community that follows this practice cannot hope to get premium prices for its eggs poultry authorities predict fertile eggs should not be produced except for hatching purposes and even then the male birds should be removed from the laying flock at the end of the hatching season not to be returned until a few da days ys before fertile eggs are needed again during the fall months a common cause for fertile eggs 0 is the presence of young cockerels cocker els on the farms thus the young male birds might well join their older flock mates in the rooster day parade |