Show early hatched pullets best for winter eggs where eggs in winter are wanted the early hatched pullet Is without doubt the one to depend upon yearling hens and those older ones are very rarely good producers during november and december they are uncertain even in jannary and february and really do not begin to lay well until march where the egg production fills falls below 15 per cent during the winter months one is nut nt making much prost profit the age at which most pullets bekin begin laying is from six to seven months some lay at four ant and one half to five months and others not until eight or niue months of age this means that it if a 50 per cent egg beld is wanted in november the pullets should be hatched during march or april may hatched batched pullets will lay a little but as a rule not 40 or more per cent daily |