Show EGGS FOR MARKET AND FOR HATCHING point for poultry breeder to consider the poultry breeder must and can count Ms his chicks bea before ore they batch if he be manages his breeding flock properly says G F heuser of the new york state college of agriculture in addition to large numbers of eggs the flock must lay eggs that are fertile and that are capable of producing chicks that tire are healthy and vigorous reed feed makes the difre difference rence between good and anc poor hatching eggs lie he says two pens of liens hens at cornell laid on the average eggs to the hen in a year a satisfactory number but one pens eggs hatched per cent and the other hatched of the fertile eggs that were set in february the two pens received two different rations both satisfactory for eg egg laying but not equally satisfactory for hatching batching purposes weight may be used as an indication of health dens gaining or maintaining their weight show the best hatches while those losing weight suffer most liens alt with yellow color in the shanks have eggs that hatch better than those with faded shanks because the presence of the color indicates a better surplus of fat and vitamins intensive laying and long laying periods previous to the hatching season may result in lowered hatchability since it Is difficult to maintain high production and the weight of the birds at the same time A lack of vitamins especially has shown unfavorable results experiments conducted at cornell show cod liver oil improved hatchability 10 to 25 per cent depending on the severity of the conditions under tinder which the hens were kept the inclusion of green food increased the hatchability 5 to 10 per cent aud and tile the feeding of milk 5 3 to 13 15 per er cent barley not sufficient for fattening turkeys here Is the adylee advice given by professor halpin wisconsin college of agriculture to an inquirer who asks about the plan of fattening turkeys on barley in reply to your letter would we uld say that if I 1 were you I 1 would not depend upon barley alone for fattening turkeys but would use a combination of barley and corn or barley wheat and corn in addition to this I 1 should want to feed some milk barley alone Is incomplete barley and green grass and milk would bring your turkeys along fairly well A combination though of barley with corn or barley with corn and wheat and the milk would give you on an average more satisfactory gains barley is good poultry grain but like all the other grains must be supplemented with t these iese other things to get good results results 1 I note you have to buy boril corn I 1 would urge you tell to buy good dry old corn I 1 teed feed turkeys new corn as there are many reports of trouble from the heavy feeding of hew bew corn to turk turkeys eTs wisconsin agriculturist room for the hens the usual amount of room suggested for chickens of the light breeds Is 3 to aa square feet of floor space per hen and for the heavy breeds 4 square feet of floor space where this amount is riot not available there are three alternatives construct a new house rework the present house so as to make it larger remodel some other building and equip it for the chickens or cull both hens and pullets more rigidly not keeping more than the present housing facilities will care tor for oklahoma farmer stockman leg weakness when chicks wobble about and lose oae control of their legs it is almost too late to make real good pullets from them leg weakness should be prevented by getting chicks out into the direct rays of the sun as early as possible and as much as possible where chicks are confined and do not have sunshine there must be 1 per cent of forti fortified fled cod liver oil in the mash green teed feed Is a real help there are electric light bulbs which give off enough ultra violet rays to prevent leg weakness oklahoma farmer stockman green feeds for hens ground yellow carrots can be substituted for green feed for chickens in winter rations if fresh green feed cannot be provided chopped alfalfa hay or alfalfa meal Is another substitute feed that gives sati satisfactory results if possible every laying flock should have some sprouted grain each day in a test run in a western state hens with green feed each day produced GS cents more income per hen during the year over those that did not receive this kind of feed prairie farmer |