| Show U QUALITY OF EGGS NOT ALWAYS SAME pall fall and winter supply Is found much better supplied by the new york state college of 0 agriculture service I 1 do n newly laid eggs from the same hen or from different hens vary in quality and does this quality vary with with the season of the year these are questions that three cornell poultry investigators undertook to solve i e the past year during a ten day period in the middle of each month for one year all of the eggs from a flock of 70 single comb white leghorns Leg horns were examined and the egg qualities recorded the measures of quality used were firm albumen the proportion of outer thin albumen and the yolk as to height width and color no seasonal change in yolk color was apparent but the yolk color may be affected by feed the individual records of the eggs of representative birds s showed h aw ed that after april there is a low lowering ering of yolk quality in eggs from both pullets and hens also there was a marked increase in the amount of outer tl thin water white albumen which continued until july when it began to decrease this character varied less than the others 1 the change in the firm albumen was similar to the changes in outer thin albumen and yolk the scientists say that eggs show a decided change in quality beginning in march or april and this change toward lower quality continues into the summer the poultry men say these results agree with common knowledge especially ally of cold storage dealers who pay a premium for spring eggs or april eggs as they are known to stand up better in storage small laying flocks may be fed by hopper farm flock owners who find it inconvenient to feed laying hens at regular hours each day should find the results of an experiment on hopper feeding conducted by the michigan state college of interest and value says J C taylor associate extension at the new jersey college of agriculture rutgers university two pens of leghorns Leg horns and two pens of rhode island reds were fed corn and oats and a laying mash containing 20 per cent crude protein in hoppers during the experiment taylor reports the feed was available to the birds at all times in addition approximately t two w 0 pounds of wheat were fed daily in the litter to keep the litter from packing satisfactory egg production was obtained by the hopper feeding of corn and oats and 20 per cent protein mash and no difference in mortality was found when compared with flocks fed according to the usual method the use of artificial lights increases the success of the hopper feeding this method may solve the feeding problems of the general farmer who cannot practice the recommended om orn mended regularity of feeding laying birds balanced egg mash ma sh ration soybean oil meal costing approximately one third less than meat scrap may successfully replace part of the meat scrap in a balanced egg mash ration says ff H alp extension college of agriculture university of illinois 1 I A possible protein combination to be used with pounds of mash might be made up of meat scrap 50 pounds soybean oil meal 50 pounds steamed bone meal 10 pounds ground limestone 5 pounds and salt 5 pounds for Poultry men scales on the legs of poultry are caused by a mite which burrows under the scales and eats into the flesh buffing the dirt oft off slightly soiled eggs leaves them in much better condition than washing so S so fowl pox has been reported from deac nearly aly all the countries the disease not only attacks chickens but may also attack pigeons turkeys geese and quail |
