Show TEST SHOWS VALUE OF COMPLETE FEED FOR GROWING BIRDS well developed pullets turn in 68 63 more profit gray summit mo an old proverb laments that one half of the world never knows how the other half lives this Is particularly true of growing pullets as demonstrated demonstrate A in a test gerej here at the purina experimental farm last year two hundred sturdy well developed six weeks old pullets were selected for the experiment all birds were from the same hatch and for the first six weeks were fed on oil purina St artena at six weeks the two hundred pullets were as nearly alike as heredity management and good feeding could make them i at six weeks the chicks were divided one hundred birds were put into a pen and fed all the gain they could eat along with grasshoppers and bugs they pic picked ked up on alfalfa range the other hundred were given all the grain they wanted nights and mornings but in addition were given all the purina growing in mash they could eat it was kept 1 before them in open hoppers these birds were also allowed alfalfa range management and housing conditions were the same for both flocks and each flock was given the best sanitation differences show early almost immediately a slight difference in the development between the two flocks began to show C S johnson manager of the purina poultry de well developed pullet from the flock fed on complete growing mash apartment part ment says but at 5 months the most amazing differences were apparent birds fed on grain and purina growing mash were mature strong and sturdy with well developed egg making organs and bi big frames they were ready to go into the laying house and start turning out profitable high priced fall eggs the hundred birds fed on grain and allowed alfalfa range were undersized under sized and immature knotty and scrawny even though they had received the same starting mash as the hundred well developed pullets although management and housing had been the same the ration the fully fed pullets received during the growing period had given them an advantage that could not be overcome unprofitable undersized bird fed on grain and range at five months both the growing mash fed pullets and the grain fed pullets were put on the same laying ration the pullets fed on growing mash responded immediately but the grain fed pullets did not the roughing they had received from the sixth to the twentieth week held them back consequently the hundred scrawny pullets did not come into production until they were 7 Vs months old and by the time they were eight months old had laid only worth of eggs good birds turn in 74 the well developed pullets grown out on a complete growing feed started laying at five months proper feeding during the growing period had given them big frames strong muscles and well developed egg making organs so that they were in peak condition to start laying during the fall and early winter months when egg prices were high these birds were in good production and at the end of 8 months had turned in ili a record of worth of eggs or more than the underdeveloped under developed pullets the hundred immature knotty little pullets were an additional expense in that they used their laying ration as a growing feed after they were in the laying house |