| Show vitamin D doubles hatchability of eggs or with the government demanding 57 bulion billion eggs and 4 billion pounds of poultry meat this year the increased fertility and hatchability reported by two new england poultry men is considered a valuable contribution trib ution to the food for victory program these men attribute the decided increases in the last few years by their older hens to use of high quality feed containing adequate amounts of D deactivated activated animal sterol the hatchability of the eggs from these hens averaged only between 40 and 50 per cent at certain seasons ions of the year reported the brothers today 80 per cent hatchability is not uncommon for more than two years the feed they used has been fortified with vitamin P 1 the all important ingredient that prevents rickets and promotes health and growth of poultry eggshell egg shell texture is also much improved lp they say sa |
