Show SELECTION OF HENS FOR WINTER LAYERS OWIS fowls I should be banded or punched in web of foot Is enabled to cull out older stock whenever desirable and keep for further production of eggs prepared by the united states department of 0 before the pullets are mixed with the older fowls be sure that the hens are banded or that the web of the foot la Is punched in some way so that you can distinguish between the pullets and the hens in this way the older stock may be culled out whenever it appears desirable and the young hens kept for further laying do not keep liens hens of the heavier breeds for for egg production over two years but some of the best hens may be kept for breeders bleeders bre eders until three or four years old leghorns Leg horns borns can be kept profitably for egg production for three years the pullets that mature early in the fall and that molt late as hens are usually the best layers and should be saved for breeding stock cull the chickens which are brought into the laying house carefully and fatten find and market all chickens which are small poorly developed or in poor condition these small poorly developed chickens are apt to catch cold if put in with the other poultry and develop diseases which quickly spread through tile the flock in order to get the greatest ogg egg production in the early fall and winter it Is essential to have well matured pullets which were hatched sn in march or april or even earlier in the southern states by early hatching find and by supplying good conditions tor for egg production more eggs will be produced in the fall and winter while a larger proportion of hens will go broody earll earl in tile the spring thus completing the necessary circle for early egg production |