Show Poultry Expert Gives Chick Breeding Tips To State Records kept on egg feed by Utah poultry raisers during tho past nine or ten years give us positive evidence of just how important are the problems of feeding and rearing of according to Professor Byron of the Utah State Agricultural college poultry High egg producing pullets or well developed market birds are the result of the correct combination of three important breeding and conditions under which the birds are brooded and and management or housing and feeding during the laying Low egg production in the flock is the result when any one of these important factors is faulty in any Where possible the poultry man should select the best hens of his own mate them with good pedigreed male and get tho chicks through the local hatchery from birds of his own choice from the eggs sent to the J Two Part Brooder The brooder should be made up of two the house and tho heating At least one-half square foot of floor space for each chick should be provided over Where soil conditions are kept the flock may improve by giving them This practice of supplying outside runs decreases heavy losses from When the chicks are placed in the the temperature should be from 95 to degrees and should be held near this during the first By the end of tho second the temperature should be gradually reduced to about 80 to 85 i Sudden changes and overheating is often very disastrous to small When the chicks are six to eight weeks old the cockerels should be separated from the pullets and forced for rapid growth for market by extra but pullets should be allowed to grow |