. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. and if she continues laying she will never mature. Mature pullets lay good sized eggs from the start. Some individual pullets are bound to lay too soon anyway, but it is not wise to try to force the matter. Chicks hatched as late as June may, if properly cared for, begin to lay eggs of good size in December, but it is not very common for late hatched pullets to begin laying before February. So far as market egg production goes the time of hatching influences the yield from the birds in their second as well as their first year. G
. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. and if she continues laying she will never mature. Mature pullets lay good sized eggs from the start. Some individual pullets are bound to lay too soon anyway, but it is not wise to try to force the matter. Chicks hatched as late as June may, if properly cared for, begin to lay eggs of good size in December, but it is not very common for late hatched pullets to begin laying before February. So far as market egg production goes the time of hatching influences the yield from the birds in their second as well as their first year. Generally considered, the early hatched birds molt early the next year, and the late hatched ones molt late. For this reason, it is the early-hatched pullet which is commonly depended upon for fall and early winter eggs during both her first and her second years. When breeding stock has not laid dur- ing the winter, the conditions are often such that the spring-laid eggs will be very strongly fertilized and the May or June hatched chicks will be especially vigorous, and more likely to develop those parental qualities for which a spec- ial selection and mating was made. The writer has had pullets hatched in June which laid over 200 eggs each within eighteen months from the shell.âF. O. Wellcome in Poultry Keeper. Poultry, on the Farm. Mr. G. C. Jacobs, Winthrop, Me., in an article in the June Bulletin of Maine Department of Agriculture, says: "I think the dairy farmer who does not keep a large flock of hens is making a mistake. That poultry raising alone is a profitable business has been proven, and in connection with the dairy it is much more so. The skim-milk fed to a flock of hens can be turned into cash, and more cash, than in any other way. I do not advocate having hens in the barn, any more than I would cows in the henhouse, but each in their place will yield a sure profit if well cared for. I think there is as much in care as there is in the breed. One man will have
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